Football Movies
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Friday, November 20th, 2009Tom Cruise plays a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player’s dreams.
Little Giants
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Kevin O’Shea (Ed O’ Neil) is an early retired Football Star, who now coaches a pee-wee league team. When Kevin excludes his niece, Becky O’Shea (dispite her being the best player), she convinces her dad Danny O’Shea (Rick Moranis) to coach a pee-wee team, and beat Kevin’s team. Danny accepts in an attempt to show […]
Heaven Can Wait
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Joe Pendleton, played by Warren Beatty, is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is killed in an accident. An angel takes him to heaven only to discover that he wasn’t ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of […]
Lucas
Sunday, November 8th, 2009A socially inept fourteen year old, played by a young Corey Haim, experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends,one an older-brother figure, the other a girl with whom he is in love– fall for each other.
Gridiron Gang
Friday, November 6th, 2009In a juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter (The Rock) sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many […]
The Best Of Times
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Robin Williams plays Jack Dundee, who dropped a perfectly thrown pass in the final seconds of the 1972 high school football game between Taft and their nemesis, Bakersfield.
Thirteen years later, Jack coerces Reno (Kurt Russell), star quarterback of the fateful game into helping him replay the game. He convinces supporters in both towns to re-stage […]
Necessary Roughness
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin’ Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule. With fewer players than most teams, the makeshift team must overcome obstacles that the best teams in the country couldn’t deal with. Using a 34 […]
Glory Road
Wednesday, April 15th, 200940 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of […]
Invincible
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Based on a true story, in the summer of 1976, 30-year old Vince Papale is having a tough run of luck. He’s been working as a supply teacher for two days a week but has just found out that his job has been eliminated because of budget cuts. His wife gives up on him saying […]
ESPN’s The Playmakers
Monday, January 19th, 2009This ESPN series generated a lot of controversy. Playmakers, ESPN’s daring hit series about a fictional pro football team is now available on DVD in an eleven-episode, three-disc set which lets you immerse yourself in the off-the-field lives of the Cougars from its very beginning. With its lightning-fast pace and great characters, this gritty […]
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