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Director Thomas Carter’s 2005 sports drama stars Samuel L Jackson, who brings a lot of fire and passion to this rather clichéd and over-familiar real-life story of Ken Carter, a controversial basketball coach of the […]
Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 1999 sports movie Any Given Sunday finds Al Pacino on blistering form as Tony D’Amato, an ageing crusty veteran professional football coach who has obsessively sacrificed his wife, family and personal life for […]
Director Michael Chapman’s sensitive 1983 sports and coming-of-age drama All the Right Moves provides an engaging early vehicle for Tom Cruise. The megastar-to-be is on compelling and convincing form as Stefen Djordjevic, an eager and stubborn […]
Director William Dear’s 1994 movie Angels in the Outfield is an old-fashioned family comedy drama from Walt Disney, with grumpy old coach George Knox (Danny Glover) supposedly gaining angelic assistance from Al the Boss Angel (Christopher […]
Director Hugh Hudson’s four-Oscar-winning 1981 triumph Chariots of Fire tells the real-life story of two athletes, Scottish missionary Eric Liddell and Jewish Cambridge University undergraduate Harold Abrahams, who ran for Britain in the 1924 Olympics. […]
‘A girl can’t get married in flannel!’ – Maggie Carpenter. The stars of the 1990 hit Pretty Woman are reunited for this equally quirky but less enjoyable romantic comedy. A decade on in 1999, this […]
Adam Sandler is the ultimate in clumsy as Bobby Boucher, a US football team’s waterboy, who suddenly finds he can tackle like a wild thing, in this sporadically very funny slapstick comedy, an above-average entry […]