Sport – MovieLog

Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:15 +0000

NASCAR stock car racing sensation Ricky Bobby is a national hero because of his win at all costs approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo — Shake and Bake by their fans for their ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Shake and Bake for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky Bobby must face his own demons and fight Girard for the right to be known as racing’s top driver.

The story of a man who could only count to #1

Adam McKay

United States

6.6

IMDb

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Semi-Pro (2008)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:14 +0000

Three men, three dreams. It’s 1976 in Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon’s American Basketball Association team languishes in last place, with few fans in the seats. Jackie dreams of a merger with the NBA. A tough-minded point guard named Monix is at the end of his career; he’s played on the champion Celtics but accepts a trade to Flint to be close to Lynn, the love of his life. Clarence Coffee Brown dreams of stardom: he’s the Tropics’ best player, but he’s a hotdog who doesn’t value teamwork. When the trio learns that a merger is in the works that won’t include the Tropics, they pull the team together to try to achieve the impossible. Can dreams come true in Flint?

The Greatest Fro on Earth

Kent Alterman

United States

5.8

IMDb

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Blades Of Glory (2007)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:14 +0000

When rivalry between the world’s best men’s figure skaters – sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy – breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they’re banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating’s first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach’s secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings? The key to victory or defeat may lie in the attraction of the virginal Jimmy toward Katie, the Van Waldenbergs’ little sister.

Kick Some Ice

Will Speck, Josh Gordon

United States

6.3

IMDb

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I, Tonya (2017)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:55:23 +0000

From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to the incident: the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya’s story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented…

There’s no need to have class when you have talent.

Craig Gillespie

7.5

IMDb

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Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:55:15 +0000

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 the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (Swifty) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim picked up a game now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

Every punk on the block says it’s not going to happen to them… but it does.

Scott Kalvert

USA

7.3

IMDb

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Foxcatcher (2014)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:50:17 +0000

The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul – a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

Foxcatcher

Based on the shocking true story

Bennett Miller

USA

7.1

IMDb

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Generation Iron (2013)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:50:16 +0000

From the producer of the original classic Pumping Iron’, comes Generation Iron the long awaited true story of dedication, rivalry, victory, defeat, redemption and triumph… The film examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives us access to the lives of current bodybuilding stars Phil Heath, Kai Greene, Branch Warren, Dennis Wolf, Victor Martinez, Hidetada Yamagishi as well as ambitious newcomer Ben Pakulski and European sensation Roelly Winklaar on their journey to be crowned Mr. Olympia.

Vlad Yudin

USA

7.1

IMDb

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Fan, The (1996)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:49:56 +0000

An all star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of a down on his luck salesman.

Fan, The

Fear strikes.

Tony Scott

USA

5.8

IMDb

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BASEketball (1998)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:49:55 +0000

Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire’s help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Coop & Remer’s team, the Milwaukee Beers is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of the Dallas Felons wants to institute., p class=’origtitle’>BASEketball

From the director of the Naked Gun and starring the creators of South Park

David Zucker

USA

6.6

IMDb

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Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (2011)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:47:04 +0000

Four fighters with different backgrounds come together to train under an ex-MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other.

Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown

Anypohoriti dynami 2: Knock Out

Michael Jai White

USA

5.5

IMDb

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