Archive for the 'Sport movies' Category
Game Plan, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Joe Kingman had the perfect game plan to win the championship… but first, he has to tackle one little problem. |
| Plot Summary: | An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has a 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. |
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Waterboy, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A man with a serious drinking problem 2: Everybody will feel his pain November 6. 3: High-Quality H20 4: Instant Hero. Just Add Water. 5: The Water-Boy is The Devil! 6: You can mess with him. But don’t mess with his water. |
| Plot Summary: | 31-year-old waterboy, Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) is constantly tormented by the team he works for until he is fired by the coach. He then finds a new coach to work for. Here he finds a new talent, tackling people by pretending they’re making fun of them. Soon, he becomes the best linebacker in college football, but he must keep it secret from his overprotective mother (Kathy Bates). |
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Peaceful Warrior
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| Plot Summary: | A moving tale about the power of the human spirit, Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman’s perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change. One day, Dan’s world is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger he comes to know as Socrates (Nick Nolte)-a man who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. After he suffers a debilitating injury, with the mystical help of Socrates and an elusive young woman named Joy (Amy Smart), Dan will grow to realize that strength of spirit is what leads a man to his true greatness. From a screenplay by Kevin Bernhardt, Peaceful Warrior is directed by Victor Salva and produced by Mark Amin, Cami Winikoff, Robin Schorr and David Welch. |
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Replacements, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Hit hard 2: Pain heals, Chicks dig scars… Glory lasts for ever 3: Pros on strike. Everyday guys get to play. 4: Throw the ball. Catch the girl. Keep it simple. |
| Plot Summary: | A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players’ strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the “scab” who replaces the star QB. |
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Herbie Fully Loaded
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| Taglines: | 1: He’s back! 2: Start your engines… |
| Plot Summary: | Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan), the first Peyton to graduate from college receives a graduation present from her dad (Michael Keaton) and as she’s about to get a 250Z, she instead receives a Volkswagon Bug (Herbie) and Herbie takes her for a ride. Herbie takes her to “Kevins Custom Car Shop” run by her best friend Kevin (Justin Long) where they take Herbie for a test drive and end up at a car show where Herbie beats all-time racer Trip Murphy (Matt Dillon)in an impromptu street race. Trip demands a rematch and attempts to discover the secret behind Herbie. But Magwheels’s biggest challenge isn’t the up and coming Daytona 500, It’s proving to her dad that she’s good enough to be the next great Peyton. |
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Remember the Titans
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| Taglines: | 1: Before they could win, they had to become one. 2: History is written by the winners. 3: They came together when their classmates and loved ones would not. |
| Plot Summary: | Denzel Washington is hired as the T.C. Williams High football coach over a white coach in Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970’s during a time when the school has just been integrated to allow blacks into the school. |
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Out Cold
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| Taglines: | 1: They Haven’t Quite Figured It All Out, But They’re Getting A Little Warmer. |
| Plot Summary: | Animal House meets Casablanca in this outrageous snowboarding comedy. Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain until the legendary Papa Muntz’ son decides to sell the mountain to sleazy land developer John Majors, having the staff fired and turning Bull Mountain into ‘Yuppieville’. |
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Sandlot, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A piece of paradise a half block wide and a whole summer long. 2: The adventure of a lifetime,the summer of their dreams…the dog of their nightmares 3: They’re more than a team. They’re the best buddies in the entire history of the world. |
| Plot Summary: | Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he’s part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him. |
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Second String
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| Taglines: | 1: She believed in him. Now he must believe in himself to lead the team to the Super Bowl. |
| Plot Summary: | American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan’s place… |
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Program, The
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| Taglines: | 1: From Different Worlds They Come To Prove Themselves In The Gritty World Of College Football. 2: Pressure surrounds them. Competition divides them. Talent unites them. A story of what it takes to survive… |
| Plot Summary: | Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying. |
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