In “Bad News Bears,” grizzled former professional baseball player Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) is bribed by a straitlaced lawyer (Marcia Gay Harden) to coach the Bears, a woefully inept youth baseball team. Buttermaker’s got to find a way to drive this gang of 12 misfits to a championship against their hated rivals: the Yankees…
Category: Sports Movies
Beautiful Boxer (2005)
Based on the true story of Thailand’s famed transgender kickboxer, “Beautiful Boxer” is a poignant action drama that punches straight into the heart and mind of a boy who fights like a man so he can become a woman. Believing he’s a girl trapped in a boy’s body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol sets out to…
Before the Fall (Napola) (2005)
Albrecht Stein, a youth coming of age in Nazi Germany, is enrolled in the Napola political academy by his father. While being groomed for a membership in the SS, Albrecht becomes dissillusioned with the Nazi ideology he at first embraced. Set during World War II, this movie follows German teenagers who attend a napola –…
Cinderella Man (2005)
“In all the history of the boxing game, you’ll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.” – Damon Runyon (1936) In the middle of the Great Depression, when an America in the grips of a devastating economic downturn was nearly brought to its knees, there came along…
Coach Carter (2005)
Tagline: It begins on the streets. It ends here. Inspired by a true-life story, “Coach Carter” is an inspirational account of a controversial high school basketball coach, who received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team for poor academic performance. Tension mounted…
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
“Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story” tells the story of a father who, for the love of his daughter, sacrifices almost everything to save the life of an injured racehorse and bring the promising filly back to her former glory. The film stars Kurt Russell (“Miracle”), Dakota Fanning (“War of the Worlds”) and Kris Kristofferson…