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Drama, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film
Former Pee-Wee hockey coach Gordon Bombay is a star in the minor leagues, expected to reach the National Hockey League. However, a career-ending knee injury brings him back to the Blukeville district of Minneapolis. Bombay is offered a cha…
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Romance Film, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film, sport film
The story is divided into four quarters, each one representing a different period in the lives of the protagonists. The first quarter takes place in 1981, when Monica and Quincy are children and become friends due to their shared love for …
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
59-year-old Mike Flynt gets a second chance to play college football, where he becomes a linebacker.
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Romantic Comedy, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, romantic comedy film
Phil and Claire Foster are a married couple from New Jersey with two children. Over time, their domestic life has become predictable and routine, leaving their relationship feeling stagnant. Phil, a tax lawyer, and Claire, a realtor, lead …
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Drama, Sport, drama film, sport film
Jack Cunningham is an alcoholic ironworker who is separated from his wife, Angela. While at Thanksgiving dinner with his family, they express concern about his habits. The next day, Jack receives a call from Father Devine at his former Cat…
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American football film, Coming Of Age, Komödie, Romance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Lucas Blye is a 14-year-old high school student in suburban Chicago. While on one of his entomological quests, he meets Maggie, a slightly older girl who just moved into Lucas' town. Becoming friends, Maggie spends time with him during the…
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Action Comedy, Sport, comedy film, drama film, sport film
Doug Glatt is a polite, kind-hearted, but dim-witted bouncer at a local dive bar in the fictional hockey crazed town of Orangetown, Massachusetts. He feels ostracized from society, especially since his father and brother are both highly ed…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, teen film
Jake Tyler has recently moved from Iowa to Orlando, Florida with his mother, Margot, and younger brother, Charlie. The move furthers Charlie's budding tennis career. Jake's father died in a drunk-driving car crash, which classmates have ta…
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Family Comedy, comedy film, fantasy film
13-year-old Calvin Cambridge and his two best friends, Murph and Reg Stevens, live in an orphanage in Los Angeles. At night, they all have to sell chocolate for the troublesome orphanage director, Stan Bittleman, at the STAPLES Center, aft…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, documentary film, drama film, sport film, surf film
In the year 2003, 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her parents Tom and Cheri, and two older brothers, Noah and Timmy. All are surfers, but she and her best friend, Alana Blanchard, have grown up with a passion for t…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
After the "World Crash of '79", massive civil unrest and economic ruin occurred. The United States government is restructured into a totalitarian regime under martial law. To pacify the population, the government has created the Transconti…
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Dance Film, Melodrama, dance film, romantic comedy, sport film
Scott Hastings, the frustrated son of a family of ballroom dancers, has been training since the age of six. His mother Shirley teaches ballroom dancing, and his father Doug meekly handles maintenance chores at the dance studio, while secre…
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Action, Family Drama, action film, drama film, sport film
Lincoln Hawk (called Lincoln Hawks in the trailer and sometimes inconsistently in the movie itself) is a truck driver who also arm wrestles for extra cash. He had left his family ten years ago and has a young son named Michael. His estrang…
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Komödie, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is decommissioned and towed to a junkyard after losing several races. Maggie Peyton is the youngest member of the Peyton racing clan. Her father, Ray Peyton Sr., takes her to the junkyard…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, action film, comedy film
Throughout his life, Rod Kimble has believed his dead father was a successful and respectable stuntman working for Evel Knievel. He aspires to follow in his father's footsteps and become a famous stuntman himself. Meanwhile, his stepfather…
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Biographical picture, Romance Film, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Sports agent J. B. Bernstein and his business partner Ash Vasudevan have formed their own struggling company in Los Angeles, but all J.
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film
Gus Matthews, Richie Goodman, and Clark Reedy are adult "nerds" who spent their childhoods wishing to play baseball, but never got the chance. One day, Gus and Clark witness overweight, timid Nelson Carmichael and his friends being bullied…
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Drama, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
Set mainly in 1913, the film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win the U.S. Open. Amateur golf in that era was a sport only for the wealthy, and Francis came from an Irish and French-Canadian immigrant family that was part of t…
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy
In 1980, 7-year-old Ben Wrightman had just moved to Boston with his mother after his parents' divorce. His uncle Carl took him to a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park to cheer him up. From that day on, he was a die-hard Red Sox fan for lif…
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Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, teen film
Mr. Miyagi travels to Arlington National Cemetery for a commendation for Japanese-Americans who fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II. He is referred to as "Keisuke Miyagi" during the ceremony.
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2018, Jonathan E. is the team captain and veteran star of the Houston Rollerball team. Mr.
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Biographical picture, Sport, biographical film, drama film, sport film
In a small Texan town, a young Rickey Hill wears leg braces due to a degenerative spinal disease, but enjoys playing baseball and is regarded as a batting prodigy. James, his strict father and a pastor, dissuades Rickey from the sport, wan…
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Komödie, Sport, comedy film, sport film
12-year-old Billy Heywood is a Little League Baseball player whose grandfather, Thomas Heywood, owns the Minnesota Twins. When Thomas dies, Billy learns that he is now the owner of the Twins. Thomas' will specifies that the team executives…
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sport film
Cory Weissman was a student-athlete, a basketball player, who had a stroke while attending Gettysburg College. He scored 1000 points in high school and looked forward to success as a starting point guard. Basketball is his life's primary f…
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