The Bad News Bears (1976)
Walter Matthau plays aging alcoholic Morris Buttermaker, a one-time minor league prospect turned pool cleaner, with not much to show for his life except some empty beer cans. Morris gets the chance to make...
Category: Sports
Breaking Away (1979)
A refreshingly different sports movie, never really following a completely conventional path, Breaking Away earned solid critical acclaim back in 1979 (5 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture). This one delivers almost strictly on the charm...
American Flyers (1985)
Kevin Costner plays Dr. Marcus Sommers, a specialist in sports medicine who is taking the time to visit his mother and brother he left in St. Louis when their father past away from a brain...
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
As a director, Clint Eastwood has sometimes been down, but never for the count, and if you consider the last two films he has directed, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby, you might even conclude he has hit...
The Slugger’s Wife (1985)
It could have been and should have been, a much better film than it actually is. Marred by lots of problems in production behind the scenes, The Slugger’s Wife is a case of “too many...
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Based on a true story, Josh Waitzkin is a 7-year-old boy who becomes fascinated by the game of chess after watching the locals play speed chess in a New York park. After picking up...
Dodgeball (2004)
Rawson Marshall Thurber may be a first-time big-screen writer-director, but he had already made a splash in sports comedy with a series of television commercials for Reebok called, “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker”. Thurber started...
Miracle (2004)
Long considered one of the greatest moments in sports for the United States, Miracle is a dramatization of the true life events of the United States Winter Olympic hockey team, and its quest to gain the...
Grind (2003)
Here’s another classic example of a movie that had the potential to be something more but is crippled by the notion that they have to do what everyone else is doing, for fear that they will...
The Scout (1994)
Baseball comedies are usually an easy sell for me, as I love baseball and movies about it. Even mediocre films can be somewhat tolerable when setting on the stage of America’s pastime, and while The...