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| Taglines: | 1: Think like Mike, Achieve like Mike, Be Like Mike. |
| Plot Summary: | Calvin and his friends, who all live an in orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA. |
Tags: basketball, bet, bully, child player in adult sport team, lightning, orphan, orphanage, shoe
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| Taglines: | 1: Forget What You Think You Know 2: The Champ is here! |
| Plot Summary: | In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African American’s in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali’s personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time. |
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, adultery, africa, african american, boxer, boxing, comeback, conscientious objection, conscientious objector, conscription, draft evasion, draft refuser, draftee, heavyweight champion, infidelity, islam, malcolm x, martin luther king, military draft, moslem, nation of islam, racial slur, shot in the chest, title spoken by character, zaire
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| Taglines: | 1: Hit hard 2: Pros on strike. Everyday guys get to play. 3: Throw the ball. Catch the girl. Keep it simple. |
| Plot Summary: | When the NFL football team, the Washington Sentinels, goes on strike, the team’s owner, Edward O’Neill (Jack Warden), calls former NFL coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) out of retirement to coach a rag-tag team of replacement players to finish the season’s last four games in which McGinty turns to former Ohio State player Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) to be the team’s captain for the duration of the season and Falco is forced to shape up the misfit players whom include convenence store guard Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones), gangster rapper brothers Andre and Jamal Jackson (Faizon Love and Michael Taliferro), former sumo westler Jumbo Fumkio (Ace Yonamine), a Welsh “football” player called “The Leg” (Rhys Ifans), a deaf player, a convict on a work-release program, a tough SWAT leader, and many more while, at the same time, Falco strikes up a possible romance with the team’s cheerleading captain Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton). |
Tags: american football, barroom brawl, based on true story, cheerleader, cigarette, egg, football team, heart, hit in crotch, houseboat, picket line, player coach, product placement, scabs, soccer player, strike, sumo, vomit scene, washington d.c.
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| Taglines: | 1: Life is a contact sport. 2: Play or be played 3: This Christmas. It’s Better To Give Than Receive. |
| Plot Summary: | When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D’Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father’s death. Christina’s driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties. |
Tags: ambition, american football, coach, corruption, egotism, ensemble cast, eyeball, football team, glamour, injury, institutional discrimination, journalism, locker room, male frontal nudity, male nudity, marriage, medical ethics, party girl, pill abuse, professional sports, self destructive, slap, success, team play, teamwork, television, violence, vomit, vulgarity
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| Taglines: | 1: Everybody loved him… Everybody disappeared. 2: Show me the money! 3: The journey is everything. 4: The rest of his life begins now. |
| Plot Summary: | Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he’s really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself? |
Tags: american football, black romance, blockbuster, consciousness, egotism, friendship, greed, loneliness, loyalty, marriage, mission statement, money, mother son relationship, product placement, quitting job, sign language, singing in car, single parent, sister, sports agent, title spoken by character
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| Taglines: | 1: Get ready to jam |
| Plot Summary: | Swackhammer, owner of the amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate get new attractions and he decides that the Looney Tune characters would be perfect. He sends his diminutive underlings to get them to him, whether Bugs Bunny & Co. want to go or not. Well armed for their size, Bugs Bunny is forced to trick them into agreeing to a competition to determine their freedom. Taking advantage of their puny and stubby legged foes, the gang selects basketball for the surest chance of winning. However, the Nerdlucks turn the tables and steal the talents of leading professional basketball stars to become massive basketball bruisers known as the Monstars. In desperation, Bugs Bunny calls on the aid of Micheal Jordan, the Babe Ruth of Basketball, to help them have a chance at winning their freedom. |
Tags: alien, amusement park, baseball, based on commercial, basketball, blockbuster, bugs bunny, cartoon, cartoon reality crossover, daffy duck, elmer fudd, foghorn leghorn, golf, kids and family, lola bunny, looney tunes, martial arts, monster, part animated, part computer animation, pepe le pew, porky pig, product placement, rabbit, road runner coyote, semi autobiographical, speedy gonzales, sylvester, tasmanian devil, yosemite sam
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| Taglines: | 1: A movie with a lot of balls. 2: From the idiots what brung you “Dumb and Dumber” 3: The movie the Olympuk comitee wouldn’t allow you to see. 4: You wouldn’t want to meet these pinheads in an alley. |
| Plot Summary: | Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray) and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand! Not to let this get him down, he gets a prosthetic hand and becomes a traveling sales man. But it’s really all down hill for him from that night on until … One day he meets Ishmael (Randy Quaid) who’s a Quaker that sneaks away from the farm to bowl (his fellow Quakers would disown him if they knew)! Roy convinces Ishmael to let him be his trainer and he’ll make him the best bowler the world has ever seen. Reluctantly Ismael agrees to go on the road and shortly afterwards actually finds that life outside the farm is quite fun. Soon their paths cross that of Ernie McCracken who is still top ranking bowler. While Roy’s career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes! They both square off for the untimate bowling championship … to see which one truly IS the champion. To find that out you’ll have to see this funny and original movie. Bill Murray is at his best, since Caddyshack. Randy Quaid makes some daring choices that really work and Woody Harrelson brings us the comdey style from “Cheers” that made him a household name! |
Tags: alcohol, amish, biblical interpretation, bowling, carriage, drinking, drinking problem, gambling, hair loss, handicap, hit in groin, hook, hustler, inflatable doll, landlady, male stripper, nightclub, nipple, prosthetic body part, road, road trip, semen, star spangled banner, strip club, tattoo, tournament, vomit scene
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| Taglines: | 1: The movie with 20,000-mile or one-million-laughs guarantee! |
| Plot Summary: | Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie’s arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate’s own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards’ tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight. |
Tags: 1900s, actor playing multiple roles, around the world, automobile, automobile racing, bach toccata and fugue, balloon, bar, bar fight, based on true story, beach, bird, blockbuster, camera, car accident, cheating, cigar, desert, dog, drunk scene, face slap, handcuffs, hot air balloon, jealousy, kidnapping, kiss, love, mayor, motor car on floating ice, new york, newspaper, organ, outlaw, paris france, pie fight, polar bear, prince, racing, reporter, river, road, saloon singer, satire, sheriff, submarine, swimming, sword fight, title spoken by character, train, unwanted kiss, wife, woman, woman smoking cigar