One on One . Metro Pulse . 03-15-99

One on One

DIRECTED BY: Lamont Johnson

REVIEWED: 03-15-99

Good sports flicks are hard to come by. One of the worst of the bunch is One on One (PG, 1977), starring former pretty-boy Robby Benson. The movie indulges all the clichés of sports as metaphor for life without any subtlety or style. Benson is remarkably unbelievable as a basketball prodigy from the sticks who wins a scholarship to a big-city college. The tyrannical coach doesn't believe Benson has game (imagine that?) and tries to force him off the team. But the love of a bookish tutor, Annette O'Toole, gives Benson the strength to persevere—and guess what happens when the starting guard gets injured in a key game?

--Joe Tarr

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