Category Archives: Sport
McFarland
Release 2015
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Director: Niki Caro
Writers: Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois, Grant Thompson
Stars: Kevin Costner, Ramiro Rodriguez, Carlos Pratts, Johnny Ortiz, Rafael Martinez
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2097298/
A cross country coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
23 Blast
Release 2014
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Director: Dylan Baker
Writers: Bram Hoover, Toni Hoover
Stars: Mark Hapka, Bram Hoover, Stephen Lang, Max Adler, Alexa PenaVega
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2304459/
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Unbroken
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Drama, Sport, War
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Director: Angelina Jolie
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson, Laura Hillenbrand
Stars: Matthew Crocker, Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Takamasa Ishihara
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1809398/
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Foxcatcher
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
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Director: Bennett Miller
Writers: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
Stars: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100089/
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher lead by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
When the Game Stands Tall
Release 2014
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Director: Thomas Carter
Writers: Scott Marshall Smith, David Zelon, Neil Hayes
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Alexander Ludwig, Michael Chiklis, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2247476/
The journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur, who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
Million Dollar Arm
Release 2014
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Director: Craig Gillespie
Writers: Thomas McCarthy
Stars: Jon Hamm, Pitobash, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Aasif Mandvi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1647668/
A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
The Hurricane
Release 1999
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Director: Norman Jewison
Writers: Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton, Armyan Bernstein, Dan Gordon
Stars: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174856/
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
The Comebacks
Release 2007
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Director: Tom Brady
Writers: Ed Yeager, Joey Gutierrez, John Aboud, Michael Colton, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson
Stars: David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790804/
A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!
Draft Day
Release 2014
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Director: Ivan Reitman
Writers: Scott Rothman, Rajiv Joseph
Stars: Chris Berman, Dave Donaldson, Patrick St. Esprit, Chi McBride, Mel Kiper
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223990/
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
The Ringer
Release 2005
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Director: Barry W. Blaustein
Writers: Ricky Blitt
Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl, Jed Rees, Bill Chott
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267891/
A young guy's only option to erase a really bad debt is to rig the Special Olympics by posing as a contestant.