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Ladybugs movie storyline. Chester Lee (Rodney Dangerfield) is desperate for a promotion at work. To impress his boss, he claims to have been a good soccer player in his youth and is badgered into coaching a girls’ team called the Ladybugs.
Dragging his assistant Julie (Jackée Harry) along as assistant coach, Chester figures the gig easy as the Ladybugs, sponsored by his company, are a dynasty, having dominated previous seasons. If he can get this team to a championship, he will get the promotion. Unfortunately, only one player has returned for the new season. The new team, which includes the boss’s daughter, Kimberly (Vinessa Shaw), are clueless, make a dreadful start to the season and the boss is less than impressed.
In his personal life, Chester is engaged to Bess (Ilene Graff), who has a son, Matthew (Jonathan Brandis), from a previous marriage. Matthew just happens to be a great athlete, but poor grades get him kicked off the soccer team. Chester invites Matthew to watch the Ladybugs practice and to get some tips. Matthew has a crush on Kimberly from school and it is partly due to this that Chester persuades him to dress like a girl and play for the team under the name Martha. With only Chester, Matthew and Julie knowing the secret of Martha’s identity, the team wins the rest of its games to get to the championship game. Kimberly makes friends with Martha, not knowing “she” is in fact Matthew.
Ladybugs is a 1992 American sports-comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield and directed by Sidney J. Furie. Dangerfield plays a Denver businessman who takes over a girls soccer team that the company he works for sponsors. The film also stars Jackée Harry as his assistant coach, Ilene Graff as his girlfriend, Jonathan Brandis as his girlfriend’s son, and Vinessa Shaw as his boss’s daughter.
Ladybugs (1992)
Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Rodney Dangerfield, Jackée Harry, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff, Vinessa Shaw, Tom Parks, Jeannetta Arnette, Crystal Cooke, Jennifer Frances Lee, Vanessa Monique Rossel
Screenplay by: Curtis Burch
Production Design by: Robb Wilson King
Cinematography by: Dan Burstall
Film Editing by: Tim Board, John W. Wheeler
Costume Design by: Isis Mussenden
Set Decoration by: Penelope Rene Stames
Music by: Richard Gibbs, Michael Jay, D.A. Young
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sex related dialogue.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: March 27, 1992
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