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All the Right M...
Good 17 Points 1983

Tom Cruise acts like you think he would in high school – self absorbed and too cute for his own good. He’s no match for his coach, who makes his coming of age experience stressful and close to turning him in to just another dying steel town worker.

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The Pride of th...
Good 3 Points 1942

Supposedly one of the great baseball movies of all time, I found myself disappointed by its corniness and pretty by the book filmmaking. Yet, it’s still fund to watch with the two leads, Cooper and Wright, at the height of their powers. And you have to admit, seeing the real Babe Ruth, who was ha…

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Semi-Pro
Good 85 Points 2008

Semi-Funny. Worth seeing if you like basketball, Will Ferrell silliness, and/or 1970’s nostalgia.

Essentially an extended SNL skit with big screen production values, Semi-Pro proves again that the Willster has perfected the art of mining his capacious id for extended comic benefit. While…

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Leatherheads
Good 17 Points 2008

I was excited to see a movie about Football’s early years, a time when professional football wasn’t taken seriously, and many teams were in danger of failing. Slapstick ruled the day, fights ended up in closer friendships, Clooney uses the period as a significant source of the comedy, and Randy N…

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Varsity Blues
Good 17 Points 1999

Was this the film that inspired the TV show ‘Friday Night Lights’? It could have been, except it has more humor and the drama isn’t as heavy.. In the big state of Texas, Football is king, it is the place where a winning team and its coach are revered, and not much else matters – including…

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The Longest Yard
Good 17 Points 2005

Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and Burt Reynolds (as a reprise) star in this fun prisoners v Guards football classic. Not as notable as it’s 1974 predecessor, but there is plenty of raunchy humor and brute tactics you wish your favorite team could employ from tine to time to make the film an entertain…

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23 Blast
Good 17 Points 2014

Not quite in the same class as ‘Remember the Titans’ or ‘Blind Side’, but 23 Blast has all the hallmarks of a great come-from-behind sports story. This story about Kentucky high school football star Travis Freeman is especially inspiring once you learn about Travis’ fate of blindness and his com…

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'85: The Greate...
Good 17 Points 2016

The ‘85 Chicago Bears – “The greatest team in football history” is highlighted through interviews with the players, coach Ditka, and notable fans including Barack Obama and Bill Murray, In 80 – they had to build a canopy to protect the team from beer cans until Ditka started the turnaround. Th…

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Talladega Night...
Good 67 Points 2006

Funny enough.

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Tyson
Good 66 Points 2009

This well crafted biodoc provides a warts-and-all picture of boxing and cultural phenomenon Iron Mike Tyson. Given his pop prominence and the high quality of the film, Tyson will appeal to non-boxing fans, though not to many women given its subject’s twisted attitudes and rape conviction.

T…

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