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comedy film
The film starts with the four friends Rick, Cameron, Donnie and Ted arriving at their college reunion party and re-introducing themselves. Cam, Donnie and Ted are all married, but Rick's girlfriend, Susanne, says that she won't marry Rick …
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Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film
A newspaper editor suffering from memory loss after an accident takes a trip to a memorabilia expo with his Alzheimer's-impaired relative, Rollie, and his high school flame, Charlotte. The plan is for Rollie to sell a rare baseball card, b…
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Komödie, comedy drama
The film is an ensemble comedy-drama that focuses on the group of people, each of whom is afraid of the water, that join an adult swim class. Amy Pierson (Paget Brewster) is a calculus teacher going through a divorce with her husband, Paul…
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Documentation, Sport
Background Goodes, an Aboriginal Australian of Adnyamathanha and Narungga heritage, was drafted by the Sydney Swans in the 1997 AFL draft and went on to have a successful career with the Swans, being awarded a number of accolades for his p…
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boxing film
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. When a shady boxing manager discovers Joe's natural boxing…
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sport film
documentary film, sport film
drama film, sport film
Twenty-one-year-old Plumb Marigold (Pappas) is a famous but lonely distance runner and has lived her entire life surrounded by coaches, teammates and fans while training to be an Olympic distance runner. Though she excels in her sport, she…
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Komödie, Sport, comedy film
Roseanne Barr plays a widowed mother/real estate agent who moves to an upstate California town so obsessed with football that she organizes a "mothers-versus-sons" football game.
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sport film
sport film
In a small New York town called Willow Falls, a new manager is needed for the Panthers, a local Little League baseball team. Bruce Hallerton, a lawyer by trade, volunteers for the job, deciding it would be a way to spend more time with his…
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Documentation, documentary film, sport film
drama film, sport film
As a sports drama, Spiker centers on the United States men's national volleyball team at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Superstar college athletes train hard to be accepted onto the team with the help of a strict coach.
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comedy film
Bill Johnson is a former baseball player whose fanatical devotion to the game has cost him several jobs. He remains steadfast in one thing: he hates umpires. Matters are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law Evans is a retired ump…
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drama film, sport film
Accused of throwing races back home, American jockey Danny Arnold now rides horses in Italy, where a gangster named Bork insists that he deliberately lose a race. Dan double-crosses him, then avoids Bork's thugs, taking young son Joe with …
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Drama, Sport, boxing film, drama film
Pat Quaid, an alcoholic San Francisco widower, ends up in jail. His grocery-clerk son, Eddie, needs $25 to bail him out. When he can't borrow it, Eddie enters an amateur fight contest and wins it.
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drama film, sport film
A champion jockey, having forfeited his own career by taking a bribe, takes a young rider under his wing. At a racetrack meeting banned former jockey Sam is checking the perimeter for illicit means of entry and a cheeky young boy, Georgie,…
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comedy drama, sport film
The film is a light drama, set around elderly leading cricketer Sam Palmer's last appearance for England. Action jumps between various elements: an Englishman explaining to an American the rules and terminologies of the game from the audie…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film, sport film
Auto Racing, Drama, sport film
The film tells the true story of stock car racing legend Jimmie Lewallen and his friends Bill Blair, Sr. and Fred Harb. Early in his life, Jimmie Lewallen struggles to dig himself out of a life of poverty.
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sport film
Based on the true story of the Detroit Red Wings' Ted Lindsay, a nine-time NHL All-Star who, along with Doug Harvey of the Montreal Canadiens, headed up a small group of players in a battle to protect the rights of players against monopoli…
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Sport
Documentation, Sport, documentary film
sport film
It is wintertime in the Evergreen Forest. At frozen Evergreen lake, everyone in the forest goes to ice skate and play hockey. Schaeffer, the old sheepdog, goes down to the lake, where he and his friends The Raccoons are playing hockey.
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