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Love & Basketball
– 2000 (R)
– Basketball/Drama; Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan.
The romantic life of childhood friends and high school
sweethearts is followed through to their individual
professional careers.
Field
of Dreams –
1989 (PG) – Baseball/Drama; Kevin Costner, Amy
Madigan, James Earl Jones. Mythic fantasy of an Iowa
corn farmer who follows voices and turns his fields
into a baseball diamond.
The Hustler
– 1961 (NR)(BW)
– Pool/Drama; Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper
Laurie. Fast Eddie Felson haunts pool halls hunting
for Minnesota Fats.
The Color of
Money – 1986
(R) – Pool/Drama; Paul Newman, Tom Cruise. Excellent
sequel to The Hustler has "Fast Eddie" mentoring a young
hotshot pool player.
American Flyers
– 1985 (PG13)
– Bicycling/Drama; Kevin Costner, David Marshall
Grant, Rae Dawn Chong. Two estranged brothers, at odds
with each other since their father's death, decide to
patch things up and attempt to grow closer by entering
a bicycle race together.
The Champ –
1932 (N/R)(BW) – Boxing/Drama; Wallace Beery,
Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich. Wallace Beery won the Best
Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a washed-up prizefighter,
whose only supporter is his young son as he dreams of
making a comeback.
Damn Yankees
– 1958 (N/R) – Baseball/Musical/Comedy;
Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Tab Hunter. Baseball fan swears
he'd sell his soul if he could only get his team into
the series and up jumps the Devil only too eager to
oblige.
Cowboy Up
(aka "Ring of Fire") – 2000 (PG-13) –
Bullriding/Drama/Romance; Keifer Sutherland,
Marcus Thomas, Daryl Hannah. Bullriding brothers romance
rodeo queen.
Bend It
Like Beckham –
2003 (PG-13) – Soccer/Family; Parminder K. Nagra,
Keira Knightley. A young English girl from an Indian
family must defy her conservative family's rules in
order to play soccer.
Major
League – 1989
(R) – Baseball/Comedy; Tom Berringer, Charlie
Sheen. After being brought together by the new team
owner for the express purpose of losing the season,
a team of misfits rally together and start to win.
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