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42 (2013)
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: The life story of Jackie Robinson.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Ryan Merriman, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Chadwick Boseman. Directed by Brian Helgeland.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: A female boxing promoter endures and succeeds in the male-dominated sport.
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Cast: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Tony Shaloub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington. Directed by Charles S. Dutton.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Women |
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Ali (2001)
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 157 min.
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Plot: A biography of boxing legend Muhammed Ali, from his early days as Cassius Clay to his rise to heavyweight champion.
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Cast: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson. Directed by Michael Mann.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A grumbling, alcoholic former pitcher gets roped into coaching a team of Little League misfits.
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Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Ben Piazza, Vic Morrow, Erin Blunt, Jackie Earle Haley, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Joyce Van Patten, Jaime Escobedo, Scott Firestone, George Gonzales, Alfred Lutter III, Brett Marx, David Pollock. Directed by Michael Ritchie.
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Categories: Children ∙ Gender ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A teenager is dumped by his girlfriend while dealing with family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier.
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Cast: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby. Directed by Savage Steve Holland.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Sports ∙ Romance |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: An aging hippie, mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, embarks on a quest of restitution for his soiled oriental rug, enlisting his bowling buddies to help.
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Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro. Directed by Joel Coen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Property ∙ Sports |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: An examination of America's win-at-all-cost culture.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Chris Bell.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Medical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 143 min.
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Plot: A deranged war veteran plots to kill thousands of Americans at the Superbowl in Miami by destroying the Goodyear blimp.
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Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Bekim Fehmiu. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
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Categories: Action ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Sports |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: A homeless and traumatized boy becomes a football star with the help of a caring family.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinten Aaron,Kathy Bates. Directed by John Lee Hancock.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 63 min.
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Plot: Focuses on the issues facing former NFL Players following their retirement, including their ironic struggle against the NFL Player's Union and the Owners they made rich.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Michael Felix.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Based on the dramatic true events behind one of tennis' most famous rivalries.
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Cast: Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, Leo Borg, Marcus Mossberg, Jackson Gann. Directed by Janus Metz.
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Categories: Sports ∙ History ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Nineteen year old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the IRA in Belfast.
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, Kenneth Cranham. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.
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Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson. Directed by S. Craig Zahler.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Four friends challenge the local college boys in the annual bike race in an attempt to separate themselves from their small town reputation.
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Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley. Directed by Peter Yates.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A high school football player's dreams to play professionally are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison.
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Cast: Melanie Liburd, Aldis Hodge, Sherri Shepherd, Greg Kinnear, Tiffany Dupont, Gino Vento, Matt Battaglia. Directed by Tom Shadyac.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 108 min.
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Plot: A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl. Directed by Ron Shelton.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
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Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Bill Murray. Directed by Harold Ramis.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Sports ∙ Property |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 123 min.
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Plot: Two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics; one is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, John Gielgud. Directed by Hugh Hudson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Religion ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: A former pool player returns to the game and takes on a young protege.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Conflict ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 133 min.
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Plot: The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
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Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad. Directed by Ryan Coogler.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: Story of the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.
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Cast: Sean Penn as narrator. Directed by Stacy Peratta.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ History |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A baseball drama about the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, when members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to tamper with the World Series.
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Cast: Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn, Michael Lerner, Clifton James, Studs Terkel. Directed by John Sayles.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Drama ∙ Fraud |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Two young surfers travel the world in hopes of finding the perfect wave.
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Cast: Michael Hynson, Robert August. Directed by Bruce Brown.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
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Cast: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri. Directed by Robert Ckouse.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Sports ∙ Action |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
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Cast: Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman. Directed by Richard Linklater.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 87 min.
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Plot: Explores the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever.
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Derek Jeter, Denard Span. Directed by Jonathan Hock.
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Categories: Sports ∙ History ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 139 min.
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Plot: A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson. Directed by Denzel Washington.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 107 min.
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Plot: Inspired by a mysterious voice, a farmer constructs a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield.
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Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Timothy Busfield. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Banking |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: An explosive relationship threatens to take down Micky Ward,a struggling boxer, and his older brother and trainer, Dicky.
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Jack McGee. Directed by David O. Russell.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Family ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: The fascinating story of the unlikely and tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
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Cast: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave. Directed by Bennett Miller.
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Categories: Domestic Relations ∙ Biography ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A teenager on the verge of being kicked out of school begins training as a boxer and discovers her true talent.
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Cast: Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Santiago Douglas. Directed by Patrick Cady.
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Categories: Women ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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Cast: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight. Directed by James Gartner.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Education ∙ Racism |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: An outcast bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory.
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Cast: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill. Directed by Michael Dowse.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Sports ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 171 min.
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Plot: The lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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Cast: Arthur Agee, William Gates. Directed by Steve James.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper. Directed by David Anspaugh.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Education ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 68 min. B&W
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Plot: As the fun-loving president of Huxley College, Groucho tries to keep the student body in line while attempting to keep his own body near a flirtatious floozie.
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Cast: Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo), Thelma Todd, David Landau, Florine McKinney. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Education ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 144 min.
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Plot: A Brooklyn-born teenager and his Canadian guardians spur an investigation leading to the release of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder decades earlier.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Unger, Liev Schreiber. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A competitive ice skater rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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Cast: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale, Bojana Novakovic, Caitlin Carver . Directed by Craig Gillespie.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 4 hours min.
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Plot: Details Jackie's rise from humble beginnings to an American hero and pivotal figure in history.
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Cast: Keith David, Jamie Foxx. Directed by Ken Burns.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: When a sports agent has a moral ephiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent for the only athlete who stays with him.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renee Zellweger. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Entertainment ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A handyman and martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting.
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Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue. Directed by John G. Avildsen.
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Categories: Children ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 85 min. B&W
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Plot: Crooks plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.
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Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Investigates the health crisis that threatens NFL players and the long-term fortunes of football.
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Cast: Will Lyman as narrator. Directed by Michael Kirk.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Health |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A charming football hero is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums; when the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, he must convince a college football star to join his ragtag ranks.
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Cast: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce. Directed by George Clooney.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Entertainment ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.
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Cast: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.
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Cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner, Burt Reynolds. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Sports ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: Gowing up playing basketball together, a young couple faces challenges in their relationship and lives.
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Cast: Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, ALfre Woodward, Dennis Haysbert. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Romance ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: Recounts how Marshall University achieved a great comeback in sports history one year after losing their entire football program in an airplane crash.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Deborah Novak.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Biography |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a woman who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
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Cast: Brian Cox, Matthew Goode, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Romance ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: A self-centered lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team.
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Cast: Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Josef Sommer. Directed by Stephen Herek.
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Categories: Action ∙ Comedy ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 132 min.
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Plot: A determined young woman wins over a hardened trainer in order to establish herself as a boxer.
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Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Medical ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: The story of Oakland A's general manager's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget.
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Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright. Directed by Bennett Miller.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs.
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Cast: Mark Zupan, Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Joe Bishop, Andy Cohn. Directed by Dana Adam Shapiro.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Disability |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
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Cast: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp. Directed by Clarence Brown.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Animal ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: A group of Iranian girls who attempts to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium dressed as boys in order to watch a big football match. In Farsi with English subtitles.
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Cast: Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi, Ida Sadeghi, Golnaz Farmani. Directed by Jafar Panahi.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Gender ∙ Sports |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 108 min. B&W
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Plot: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger. Directed by Elia Kazan.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Employment ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: Two small-time con men find themselves in trouble with both the Mafia and a corrupt police department.
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Cast: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan, Burt Young. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
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Categories: Organized Crime ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
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Cast: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyongo. Directed by Mira Nair.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 129 min.
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Plot: An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace.
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Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond. Directed by John Ford.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Domestic Relations ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 129 min. B&W
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Plot: An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
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Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Biography ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 86 min. B&W
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Plot: A boxer at the end of his career ends up back in the ring as a wrestler to save his gambling manager.
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Cast: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris. Directed by Ralph Nelson.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Entertainment ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: The impossible triumph of Team Rwanda.
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Cast: Moderated by Forest Whitaker. Directed by T. C. Johnstone.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ History |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ.
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Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith. Directed by John G. Avildsen.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: Thirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight.
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Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia. Directed by Sylvester Stallone.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: After being told he wasn't smart enough to go to Notre Dame, or big enough to play on the football team, Rudy becomes determined to do just that.
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Cast: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Lili Taylor, Robert Prosky. Directed by David Anspaugh.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it, but also those of the nation.
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Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks. Directed by Gary Ross.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A young man discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent in the ring.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, sal Mineo. Directed by Robert Wise.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Sports |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Explores the life of surfer Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz.
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Cast: Features Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz. Directed by Doug Pray.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Sports ∙ Family |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 86 min.
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Plot: The legal battles of the great American boxer against being conscripted into the US military during the Vietnam War.
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Cast: Muhammad Ali, Rahaman, Ali, Louis Farrakhan ; with archival footage of Malcom X, Elijah Muhammad. Directed by Bill Siegel.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Sports |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: Two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart.
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Cast: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison. Directed by Gavin O'Connor.
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Categories: Action ∙ Sports ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
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Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara. Directed by McG.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: An indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in a nearby city.
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Cast: Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern. Directed by Drew Barrymore.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Women ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
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Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Sports ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: In 1970 Brazil, as the World Cup is about to begin, a boy's parents leave him at his grandfather's apartment where he learns that his grandfather has had a heart attack and died. In Portuguese and Yiddish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Paulo Autran, Simone Spoladore. Directed by Cao Hamburger.
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Categories: Sports ∙ Entertainment ∙ Children |
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