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Movies
Sports Movie List
You will find a great
selection of sports related movies with a brief description of each.
The sports lover in your home to sure to find a favorite.
Movies are categorized by sport. You will find baseball,
football, basketball, soccer, pool, track, boxing, hockey, track,
golf and surfing. Be sure to check the rating before making a
final selection.
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Baseball movies
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Field
of Dreams |
Kevin Costner is Ray Kinsella, a
child of the sixties who has settled down as an Iowa corn farmer
with his wife Anni (Amy Madigan) and daughter Karin (Gaby
Hoffmann). He hears a voice speaking to him in his cornfield:
"If you build it, he will come…"
accompanied by a vision of a baseball field. He takes it as a
sign to build a baseball diamond which would ennable Shoeless
Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) of the infamous Chicago "Black" Sox to
play ball again.
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Starring:
Kevin Costner,
Amy Madigan, James
Earl Jones, Ray
Liotta, Burt
Lancaster,
Director:
Phil Alden Robinson
Running Time: 101 minutes
Rating:
PG
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Bull Durham |
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Starring:
Kevin Costner, Susan
Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Robert Wuhl and Max Patkin
Director: Ron Shelton
Running Time: 108 minutes
Rating: R
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Sandlot |
.It's 1962, and
Scotty Smalls has just moved to a new town with his mom and
stepfather. He tries to make friends with the boys but finds it
difficult because he knows next to nothing about baseball. Then
Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, the best ballplayer in school,
befriends him and things change. The boys play baseball together
and they even learn about "The Beast", who according to legend,
is a furry monster who lives beyond the fence at left field |
Starring:
Tom Guiry,Mike Vitar, James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, Karen Allen
Director: David Mickey Evans
Running Time: 90 minutes
Rating:
PG
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A League of
Their Own |
Two sisters, Dottie
Henson and Kit Keller, living on a farm in Oregon, join the
first female professional baseball league. The sisters love each
other except when it comes to baseball. They struggle to
help the league succeed amidst their own growing rivalry |
Starring:
Tom Hanks,
Geena Davis,
Madonna, Lori Petty
Director:
Penny Marshall
Running Time: 128 minutes
Rating:
PG
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Eight Men
Out |
The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to
ever win a pennent. The team is bitter at their penny pincher
owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. |
Starring:
Jace Alexander,
John Cusack,
Gordon Clapp,
Don Harvey
Director: John Sayles
Running Time: 119 minutes
Rating: PG
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Bang the Drum
Slowly |
The story of the friendship between
a star pitcher, wise to the world,
and a half-wit catcher, as they cope
with the catcher's terminal illness
through a baseball season.
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Starring:
Phil Foster, Robert DeNiro, Vincent Gardenia
Director:
John D. Hancock
Running Time: 96 minutes
Rating:
PG
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Major
League |
The new owner of the
Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so
they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is
uncovered, they start winning just to spite her |
Starring:
Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen
Director:
David S. Ward
Running
Time:
107 minutes
Rating: R
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The Rookie |
Jim Morris, and
ex minor league pitcher, resorted to coaching after an
injury. Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great
ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district
championship, they want him to try out for a major-league
organization. Jim is forced to live up to his end of the
deal when the team makes it to the state level.
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Starring:
Dennis Quaid, Rachel
Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Beth Grant,
Angus T. Jones
Director:
John Lee Hancock
Running
Time:
118 minutes
Rating: G |
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Pride of
the Yankees |
This
movie depicts the life of Lou Gehriq, famous baseball player,
who's career is ended by ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now
bears his name. Gehriq is followed from his childhood days in
New York to his farewell day in 1939. |
Starring:
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan
Duryea
Director:
Sam Wood
Running
Time:
127 minutes
Rating:
Not Rated
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61* |
Summer, 1961:
Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle and the race to break Babe
Ruth's single-season 60 home run record. It's a big story,
and the baseball's commissioner announces that Ruth's record
stands unless it's broken within 154 games. The film follows
the boys of summer, on and off the field.
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Starring:
Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur,
Bruce McGill
Director:
Billy Crystal
Running
Time:
128 minutes
Rating:
Not Rated
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Bad News Bears |
Morris
Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic exterminator and former
professional baseball player, is recruited by a concerned
mom (Liz Whitewood played by Marcia Gay Harden), to coach
and train a failing baseball team. The group of 12 year
olds, which are about to be thrown out of the league, are
untalented and can't win a game. Buttermaker brings in
some talent and sets out to whip the kids into shape. |
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton,
Greg Kinnear,
Marcia
Gay Harden,
Sammi Kraft
Director:
Richard
Linklater
Running Time: 113 minutes
Rating:
PG-13
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Football Movies
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The Longest Yard |
A football player who goes to
prison for drunk driving
is forced by the warden to
create a team consisting of
prisoners to play against the
prison guards. |
Starring:
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds
Director:
Peter Segal
Running
Time:
113 minutes
Rating:
PG-13
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Rudy |
Rudy is an
account of the life of
Daniel
"Rudy" Ruettiger.
How he dreamed of playing
football at the
University
of Notre Dame
and overcame many significant
obstacles. |
Starring:
Sean Astin,
Jon Favreau, Ned
Beatty, Greta Lind,
Scott Benjaminson,
Mary Ann Thebus,
Charles S. Dutton
Director: David
Anspaugh
Running
Time:
116 minutes
Rating:
PG
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Remember the Titans |
Based on a true story set in
1971, a black coach is hired to
take over a newly integrated
football team of black and white
students. The old white coach is
kept on as his assistant, while
everybody from the players, to
the coaches, to the townspeople
have trouble adjusting to the
forced racial integration.
Racism and intolerance follow as
the coach attempts to whip
everybody into shape as one team
working towards the same goal.
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Starring:
Denzel
Washington,Will Patton,
Donald Faison,Wood Harris
Director: Boaz
Yakin
Running
Time:
113 minutes
Rating:
PG |
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North Dallas Forty |
An
aging wide receiver for the
North Dallas Bulls, with many
past injuries and constant pain
is determined to do
something about the corporate
bigwigs. Will the athlete fight
the executives at the risk of
ending his career or cave from
the pressure? |
Starring:
Nick
Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson
Director: Ted
Kotcheff
Running
Time:
119 minutes
Rating: R |
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Brian's Song |
Gale Sayers (Williams) joins the
Chicago Bears as a running back.
He meets the competitive Brian
Piccolo (Caan) and they soon
form a strong friendship. Things
take a turn for the worse when
Sayers is injured and
Piccolo begins to suffer from
cancer |
Starring:
James
Caan, Billy Dee
Williams, Jack Warden,
Judy Pace,
Shelley Fabares
Director: Buzz
Kulik
Running
Time:
73 minutes
Rating:
G |
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Jerry McGuire |
Jerry Maguire is a top agent at
Sports Management International
who is too spontaneous for his
own good. He quickly goes
from the master of his universe
to unemployed after writing a
stirring mission statement for
SMI. Jerry is forced to
start from scratch with a
second-tier wide receiver as a
client and a 26 year old
single mother as an assistant.
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Starring:
Tom
Cruise, Cuba Gooding
Jr, Renee Zellweger,
Kelly Preston, Jerry
O'Connell
Director: Cameron
Crowe
Allan Graf
Running
Time:
139 minutes
Rating:R |
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Any Given Sunday |
Tony D'Amato (Pacino) is forced
to reevaluate his long time
strategies as well as his values
when an unknown third-stringer,
Willie Beaman ( Foxx), replacing
injured football legend Cap
Rooney (Quaid), lights up the
field with athletic prowess.
Adding to the pressure is the
aggressive young
president/co-owner Christina
Pagniacci (Diaz), who believes
players are property and
D'Amato's job is to win at any
cost. |
Starring:
Al Pacino,
Cameron Diaz, Dennis
Quaid, James Woods,
Jamie Foxx
Director: Oliver
Stone,
Running
Time:
2 hours and 42 minutes
Rating: R |
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Two for the Money |
Brandon
Lang (McConaughey) was a college
football star whose career was
cut short because of a broken
leg. However, because of his
love for football, he has a
talent for picking winning
teams. Walter Abrams, (PACINO),
who runs a tipping service for a
percentage of winnings, finds
Lang's talents extremely useful.
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Starring:
Al Pacino, Matthew
McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, Jeremy Piven
Director: D.J.
Caruso
Running
Time: 123 minutes
Rating: R |
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Invincible |
Inspired by the true story of
Vince Papale, a down-on-his-luck
teacher and part-time bartender
lives every fan's fantasy of
moving from the stands to the
field when he makes it onto his
hometown's professional football
team during an open tryout and
becomes a Philadelphia Eagles. |
Starring:
Mark
Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kirk Acevedo, Lola
Glaudini
Director: Ericson
Core
Running
Time: 105 minutes
Rating:
PG
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Waterboy |
Bobby Boucher, a socially inept
31-year-old from the swamps of
Louisiana is sheltered by his
over-protective Mama. With the
help of a new football coach he
goes from water boy to a
tackling machine, by focusing
his anger on opposing players.
Now Bobby has to learn how to
play football and go to college,
all behind his Mama's back.
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Starring:
Adam
Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler
Director: Frank Coraci
Running
Time: 90 minutes
Rating:
PG-13 |
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Radio |
James Robert Kennedy--nicknamed
‘Radio’ is a loner in Anderson,
South Carolina, pushing his
ever-present grocery cart up and
down the streets. He speaks to
no one and is rarely spoken to,
until one day, Coach Harold
Jones, one of the town’s most
respected men, and coach of the
popular high school football
team, befriends him. Radio is
suspicious but Coach Jones is
persistent, Slowly, Coach
Jones earns Radio’s trust and
opens up a new world to him.
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Starring:
Cuba Gooding Jr, Ed Harris
Director: Michael
Tollin
Running
Time: 109 minutes
Rating:
PG
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We Are Marshall |
Matthew McConaughey plays Jack
Lengyel, who becomes head coach
and begins rebuilding the
Marshall football program only
months after a plane crash
killed Marshall's beloved
Thundering Herd's team and
coaches. |
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox
Director:
McG
Running
Time: 127 minutes
Rating:
PG
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Gabage Picking Field Goal
Kicking |
Sports
recruiters see a natural talent
in sanitation engineer Barney
Gorman, who goes from trashman
to super star because of his
awesome kicking skills.
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Starring:
Tony Danza, Jessica Tuck
Director: Tim
Kelleher
Running
Time: 78 minutes
Rating:
PG
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Basketball
Movies
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White Men Can't Jump |
A
Midwestern white kid, Woody
Harrelson, teams up with a
hardened ghetto ball player,
Wesley Snipes, to rule the
betting circuit on the Venice
basketball courts.
Harrelson's character needs to
earn enough money to pay off an
old gambling debt and Snipes'
needs to earn enough money to
move his wife and son to a safe
neighborhood |
Starring:
Woody Harrelson,
Wesley Snipes, Rosie
Perez, Tyra Ferrell,
Cylk Cozart
Ron Shelton
Running Time:
118 min
Rating: R |
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Glory Road |
40 years ago, Don Haskins went
on the recruiting trail to find
the best talent in the land,
black or white. The
legendary 1965-66 Texas Western
Miners was made up of 7 blacks
and 5 whites. Haskin's team was
mocked and ridiculed. Despite
odds the Miners reached the
National Championship game
against powerhouse Kentucky |
Starring:
Josh Lucas,
Derek Luke, Austin
Nichols, Evan Jones,
Mehcad Brooks
Director:
James Gartner
Running Time:
118 minutes
Rating: PG |
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Coach Carter |
Samuel L. Jackson, plays a
controversial high school
basketball coach, who imposes
written contracts requiring good
grades, respectful behavior and
a dress code for all players
participating on his team. The
team becomes overconfident and
strays from the rules. Coach
Carter, Jackson, takes immediate
action and benches his
undefeated team despite the
outrage of the team, school and
community. He is determined to
show the boys that they need to
rely on more than sports for
their future.
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Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,Rob, Brown,Ashanti, Rick
Gonzalez, Channing Tatum
Thomas
Carter
Running Time: 136 min
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Hoosiers
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A true story
based on the exploits of Milan
High School's basketball team in
1954. Hoosiers is an
enjoyable film, that
depicts how Gene Hackman,
teacher and basketball coach,
leads this small Indiana school
to the state basketball finals. |
Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara
Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons, Chelcie Ross,
Robert Swan
Director:
David Anspaugh
Running
Time:114 minutes
Rating: PG |
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Hoop Dreams |
Hoopes is
a documentary about the
aspirations of two
high-school basketball players,
William Gates and Arthur Agee,
from inner city Chicago. These
two young men are followed
during their entire high-school
career ending with their being
recruited by colleges.
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Starring:
William Gates, Arthur Agee
Director:
Steve James
Running Time:
171 minutes
Rating:
PG13
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Soccer Movies
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Air Bud World Pup |
Air
Bud: World Pup is the
third film in the
Air Bud
series. Josh and his best
friend, Tom Stewart, have just
made their school's soccer team
and it is discovered that Buddy,
Josh's dog, can also play
soccer! Before the blink of an
eye, Buddy has a uniform and is
on the roster, leading Josh's
soccer team to the state
championship. However, trouble
occurs when Buddy's newborn
puppies are kidnapped by two
people who wants to sell them
for cash. |
Starring:
Kevin
Zegers, Dale Midkiff, David
Glyn-Jones, Caitlin Wachs, Chilton Crane
Bill Bannerman
Running Time:
83 minutes
Rating: G |
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Bend It Like Beckham |
Bend It Like
Beckham is a great comedy that centers on Jess (Parminder
Nagra), an Indian girl born in England. Jess has a
strong desire to become a football--or, as we say in America
soccer--star like her idol, David Beckham. It shows
her success despite her traditional family who refuses to
even consider the idea |
Starring:
Parminder Nagra,
Keira Knightley,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Anupam Kher
Gurinder Chadha
Running Time:
112 minutes
Rated PG-13 |
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Kicking and Screaming |
Phil (Ferrell) decides to coach
his 10-year-old son's soccer
team and finds the team needs
more help than he imagined. He
recruits Mike Ditka as his
assistant coach. Together they
go head-to-head for the league
championship against Buck,
Phil's extremely competitive dad
(Robert Duall). who coaches his
own young son on the premiere
team of the league. Phil
and Buck find themselves going
to extreme measures to win the
championship.
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Starring:
Will
Ferrell, Robert Duvall,
Mike
Ditka,
Kate
Walsh
Jesse
Dylan
Running Time:
95 minutes
Rated PG
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Pool
Movies
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The Hustler |
Paul Newman shines as a
small-time, struggling poolroom
hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson who
takes on the king of the
poolroom, Minnesota Fats (Jackie
Gleason) After losing big and
suffering from self-pity, he
pulls himself up, regains his
confidence and attracts the
attention of promotor Bert
Gordon (George C. Scott ). |
Starring:
Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott,
Myron McCormick
Director: Robert
Rossen
Running Time:
129 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
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The Color of Money |
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson
finds the young, promising pool
player Vincent in a local bar.
He sees in him a younger version
of himself and he offers to
teach Vincent how to be a
hustler. They tour through the
country to work the pool halls |
Starring:
Paul Newman, Tom Cruise
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Running Time:
117 minutes
Rating: R |
Track Movies
Chariots
of Fire
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The true story of two British
track athletes competing in the
1924 Summer Olympics. One is a
devout Scottish missionary who
runs for God, and the other is a
Jewish student at Cambridge who
runs for fame. |
Starring:
Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ben Cross
Director:
Hugh Hudson
Running Time:
123 minutes
Rating: PG |
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The Loneliness of the Long
Distance Runner |
Colin and his friend Mike (James
Bolam) make their pocket money
through petty crime.They are
arrested, after the robbery of a
baker's shop, and sentenced to
reform school. The
Governor of the school (Michael
Redgrave) takes a interest
in Colin, because of his
abilities as a runner; |
Starring:
Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen,
James Bolam
Director:
Tony Richardson
Running Time:
110 minutes
Rating: Not Rated |
Boxing
Movies
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Raging Bull |
Based on the life and career of
boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull
focuses on Jake's rage and
violence that makes him
virtually unstoppable in the
ring. The same anger also drives
Jake to beat his wife and his
brother Joey, and sends Jake
down a self-destructive spiral
of paranoia and rage. |
Starring:
Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Running Time:
minutes
Rating: R |
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Rocky |
Rocky Balboa (Stallone) is a
small-time, struggling amateur
boxer living in a tough,
Philadelphia neighborhood and
working in a meat factory.
When
heavyweight champion Apollo
Creed visits Philadelphia, his
managers want to set up an
exhibition match between Creed
and a struggling boxer.
The fight is promoted as a
"nobody" can become a
"somebody".
The
match is supposed to be easily
won by Creed, but someone forgot
to tell Rocky, who sees this as
his only shot at the big time.
At
the same time Balboa finds love
in the arms of a shy girl who
works in the local pet store.
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Starring:
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Director:
John G. Avildsen
Running Time:
119 minutes
Rating: PG |
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Million Dollar Baby |
Trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint
Eastwood) isn't prepared for
boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary
Swank) to enter his life. Maggie
is a determined young
athlete who eventually convinces
Dunn and his cohort (Morgan
Freeman) to help her get to the
top. |
Starring:
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Director:
Clint Eastwood
Running Time: 132
minutes
Rating: PG-13 |
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Ali |
Ali is a biography of sports
legend, Muhammad Ali, formerly
Cassius Clay, who in 1963 was a
bold, outspoken, and confident
African American pro boxer. The
story depicts his life
struggles, beliefs and a
comeback that would cement his
legend as one of the great
sports figures of all time. |
Starring:
Will Smith, Jamie Foxx
Director:
Michael Mann
Running Time: 157
minutes
Rating: R |
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Cinderella Man |
Cinderella Man is a powerfully
inspiring true story about boxer
Jim Braddock and one of the
greatest comebacks in history.
Suddenly thrust into the
national spotlight, with odds
against him, Braddock fought to
win a second chance for his
family and himself. With
America watching and needing a
champion during the
depression-era, he defied odds
and stunned the world. |
Starring:
Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger
Director:
Ron Howard
Running Time:
145 minutes
Rating: PG-13
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Hockey Movies
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Miracle |
Miracle is a movie filled with
nonstop hockey action and
heart-racing suspense. It is a
true story about one of the
greatest moments in sports
history.
The story is about Herb Brooks
(Kurt Russell), a determined
Minnesota hockey coach, who
managed to assemble a
one-in-a-lifetime U. S. hockey
team. He whips them into shape
and leads them to Olympic
victory over their seemingly
invincible Russian opponents. |
Starring:
Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson
Director:
Gavin O'Connor
Running Time:
136 minutes
Rating: PG |
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Slap Shot |
Slap Shot, a great hockey
comedy, is about a hockey coach
who gets results, after a series
of embarrassing losses, when he
teaches his players to use
fighting and violence during
games. |
Starring:
Paul Newman, Strother Martin
Director:
George Roy Hill
Running Time:
123 minutes
Rating: R |
Golf Movies
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Caddyshack |
CADDYSHACK is a comedy
starring Chevy Chase, Ted
Knight, Rodney Dangerfield and
Bill Murray. The movie takes
place at an exclusive country
club/golf course, that is
overrun with eccentric golfers.
The club is offering a caddy
contest for the poor
caddies of the course, and Danny
Noonan sees it as his key to
success. The story is really
nothing more than a series of
sketches stitched together to
generate laughs but it is
considered by many to be one of
the funniest movies ever made. |
Starring:
Chevy
Chase,
Rodney
Dangerfield,
Ted
Knight,
Michael O'Keefe,
Bill
Murray,
Sarah
Holcomb
Director:
Harold
Ramis
Running Time:
98 min
Rating: R
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Tin Cup |
Roy McAvoy is a failed pro
golfer who living at his crummy
driving range in West
Texas. One day, a beautiful
woman, Dr. Molly Griswold,
appears at his driving range for
golf lessons. She turns out to
be the new girlfriend of
McAvoy's longtime archenemy.
Molly inspires Roy and he
decides to try to qualify for
the US Open |
Starring:
Kevin
Costner,
Rene
Russo,
Cheech
Marin,
Don
Johnson,
Dennis
Burkley
Director:
Ron
Shelton
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Rating: R
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Happy Gilmore |
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A rejected hockey player
(Adam Sandler) puts his
skills to the golf course in
an effort to raise money to
save his grandmother's
house. With the most
powerful golf drive in
history he joins the P.G.A.
but brings with him his
hocky player mentality.
Unfortunately the two do not
mesh.
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Starring:
Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald
Director:
Dennis Dugan
Rating: PG13 |
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The Greatest Game Ever Played |
A golf drama where a young
amateur golfer Francis Ouimet (Shia
LaBeouf) has nothing but talent
and a dream to challenge the
world's greatest player;
His idol, Englishman, Harry
Vardon.
In 1913, Quimet rose from caddy
to U.S. Open champion at the age
of 20 despite resistance and
problems along the way.
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Starring:
James Paxton, Tom Rack
Director:
Bill Paxton
Running Time:
121 minutes
Rating: PG
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Surfing Movies
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The Endless Summer |
A 1966 documentary about surfing
that was filmed in Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti,
Hawaii and California. Director
Bruce Brown followed two surfers
around the globe in their quest
for the perfect wave. Considered
by many to be the ultimate surf
film of all time!
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Starring:
Michael Hynson, Robert August
Director:
Bruce Brown
Rating Not Rated
Run Time:
92 minutes |
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Big Wednesday |
Big Wednesday is a story about
three surfers growing up
together during the sixties,
some of the most turbulent years
in US history. Jan Michael
Vincent appears as Matt, William
Katt plays Jack and Gary Busey
is Leroy. They have a common
love of the sea, partying and
women. But the times are
changing and the boys grow up in
the shadow of the Vietnam war
which forces them to make many
hard decisions. |
Starring:
Jan-Michael Vincent,
William Katt, Gary
Busey, Patti
D'Arbanville, Lee
Purcell, Sam Melville,
Darrell Fetty, Gerry
Lopez, Hank Worden,
Joe Spinell, Steve
Kanaly,
Barbara Hale, Fran
Ryan, Dennis Aaberg,
Reb Brown
Director:
John Milius
Running Time: 115 minutes
Rated: Not Rated
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Point Break |
A gang of bank robbers calling
themselves the ex-presidents
commit their crimes while
wearing masks of Ronald
Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard
Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson. In
an effort to stop the felons the
F.B.I. send a young agent,
Johnny Utah (Reeves), undercover
to the beach. His job is
to mix with the surfer suspects
and to gather information. Utah
meets surfer Bodhi (Swayze) and
gets drawn into the lifestyle of
his new friend. |
Starring:Patrick
Swayze,Keanu
Reeves,Gary Busey,Lori
Petty
or:
Kathryn Bigelow
Running Time: 120 min
Rated R |
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Blue Crush |
Blue Crush is about a
young Hawaiian named Anne Marie
(Kate Bosworth) and her
struggles to excel as a
champion-class surfer. She
must overcome the fear of
drowning, which she nearly did
in a previous wipeout, as well
as raise a kid sister with
absent parents and borderline
poverty. Supportive friends (Girlfight's
Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe
Lake) help her to reach
competition on Oahu's infamous
Bonzai Pipeline.
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Starring: Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis,
Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, Mika Boorem
Director:
John Stockwell
Running
Time:
105 minutes
Rated PG-13 |
Wrestling Movies
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Reversal |
Leo Leoni (Mousetis) has been
wrestling since he can remember
and his life has been an endless
cycle of training and sacrifice.
His father/coach eyes college
scholarship and athletic glory
for his son. Now, Leo is
seventeen and adolescence is
making it difficult to stay
disciplined and to concentrate.
With the help of his girlfriend
he is forced to grow up quickly
and make tough choices in this
real-as-it-gets tale of triumph
of the human spirit.
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Starring:
Danny Mousetis, Derrick Nelson
Director: Alan Vint
Running Time:
104 minutes
Rating: PG13
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Nacho Libre |
Jack
Black stars as Ignacio, a cook in a Mexican orphanage, who moonlights as
a wrestler to raise money for the orphans.
However, wrestling is viewed as
a sin by the church, so he wears a mask and wrestles under the name
"Nacho"
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Starring:
Jack Black, Hector Jimenez, Troy Gentile
Director:
Jared Hess
Running Time:
100 minutes
Rating: PG |
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