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Shelter
Thursday, 5 Jun, 2008 – 2:55 | No Comment
Shelter

Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach spends his days working a dead-end job and helping his needy sister care for her son. In his free time he surfs, draws and hangs …

Million Dollar Baby
Wednesday, 4 Jun, 2008 – 3:32 | No Comment
Million Dollar Baby

Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. …

Basketball Diaries, The
Wednesday, 4 Jun, 2008 – 2:45 | No Comment
Basketball Diaries, The

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around …

Beer League
Thursday, 29 May, 2008 – 1:44 | No Comment
Beer League

Beer, broads and baseball combine with hilarious results in ARTIE LANGE’S BEER LEAGUE…an over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games seem to have a lot more to do with getting into …

Cinderella Man
Thursday, 29 May, 2008 – 1:22 | No Comment
Cinderella Man

During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock—a.k.a. the Cinderella Man—was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, …

Pumping Iron
Friday, 23 May, 2008 – 2:27 | No Comment
Pumping Iron

From Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger …

Semi-Pro
Thursday, 22 May, 2008 – 2:44 | No Comment
Semi-Pro

Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association’s Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true

Bad News Bears
Monday, 19 May, 2008 – 3:10 | No Comment
Bad News Bears

Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about …

Heaven Can Wait
Monday, 19 May, 2008 – 2:11 | No Comment
Heaven Can Wait

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn’t ready …

Final Season, The
Thursday, 15 May, 2008 – 0:27 | No Comment
Final Season, The

Tradition in Norway, Iowa, can be summed up in one word, baseball. In the small Midwestern town, population 586, baseball is a legacy passed father to son, generation to generation. The Norway high school team …

Seabiscuit
Sunday, 4 May, 2008 – 6:50 | No Comment
Seabiscuit

In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating …

Resurrecting the Champ
Wednesday, 30 Apr, 2008 – 3:41 | No Comment
Resurrecting the Champ

Up-and-coming sports reporter (Hartnett) rescues a homeless man (”Champ”, Jackson) only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ’s story …

Point Break
Thursday, 24 Apr, 2008 – 2:11 | No Comment
Point Break

In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members …

Kicking & Screaming
Wednesday, 23 Apr, 2008 – 1:51 | No Comment
Kicking & Screaming

Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father’s competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids’ soccer team, and soon finds that he’s also taking on his father’s dysfunctional way of …

Sandlot, The
Wednesday, 23 Apr, 2008 – 1:38 | No Comment
Sandlot, The

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 …

Program, The
Tuesday, 22 Apr, 2008 – 5:50 | No Comment
Program, The

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.