Tag Archives: athlete

Heaven Can Wait

IMDB Rating: 6.70
5421 votes

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Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks 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 a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Actors
Joe PendletonWarren Beatty
Betty LoganJulie Christie
Mr. JordanJames Mason
Also posted in 1978, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Peaceful Warrior

IMDB Rating: 6.90
3298 votes

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A moving tale about the power of the human spirit, Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman's perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change. One day, Dan's world is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger he comes to know as Socrates (Nick Nolte)-a man who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. After he suffers a debilitating injury, with the mystical help of Socrates and an elusive young woman named Joy (Amy Smart), Dan will grow to realize that strength of spirit is what leads a man to his true greatness. From a screenplay by Kevin Bernhardt, Peaceful Warrior is directed by Victor Salva and produced by Mark Amin, Cami Winikoff, Robin Schorr and David Welch.
Actors
Dan MillmanScott Mechlowicz
SocratesNick Nolte
JoyAmy Smart
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

The Game Plan

IMDB Rating: 5.90
2717 votes

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An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has a 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
Actors
Joe KingmanDwayne Johnson
Peyton KellyMadison Pettis
Stella PeckKyra Sedgwick
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Family, Sport | Comments (0)

Ice Princess

IMDB Rating: 6.00
3914 votes

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A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures' "ICE PRINCESS." Brainy Casey Carlyle ('Michelle Trachtenberg' (qv)) has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother ('Joan Cusack' (qv)), who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen ('Hayden Panettiere' (qv))—three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother ('Kim Cattrall' (qv)), she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver ('Trevor Blumas' (qv)), Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess."
Actors
Casey CarlyleMichelle Trachtenberg
Joan CarlyleJoan Cusack
AnnAmy Stewart
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport | Comments (0)

The Lookout

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1822 votes

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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man's parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.
Actors
LewisJeff Daniels
Chris PrattJoseph Gordon-Levitt
Gary SpargoMatthew Goode
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

We Are Marshall

IMDB Rating: 7.20
2828 votes

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When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach (McConaughey) and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Actors
Jack LengyelMatthew McConaughey
Red DawsonMatthew Fox
Nate RuffinAnthony Mackie
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

John Tucker Must Die

IMDB Rating: 5.30
6368 votes

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John TuckerJesse Metcalfe
Kate SpencerBrittany Snow
HeatherAshanti
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)

She’s the Man

IMDB Rating: 6.50
9983 votes

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Here's the thing Viola's soccer team at Cornwall got cut so she wanted to join the boys team, but they did not allow. So she thought "If you can't join them, beat them". And so she does, she disguises herself as her twin brother Sebastian, and goes out for the Illyria Boys Soccer Team. But she didn't plan falling in love with her roommate Duke. But the thing is Duke has his eye on Olivia. The thing that makes matters worse Olivia starts to fall for Sebastian who actually is a girl and she/he has a sensitive side. If things couldn't get more problematical the real Sebastian (who is in London working on his music) comes home early. He arrives on campus and has no clue that he was replaced by his twin sister.
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Goal!

IMDB Rating: 6.80
5926 votes

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Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer. However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
Actors
Santiago MunezKuno Becker
Gavin HarrisAlessandro Nivola
Erik DornhelmMarcel Iures
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Mr. 3000

IMDB Rating: 5.70
3387 votes

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Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50.
Actors
StanBernie Mac
Maureen "Mo" SimmonsAngela Bassett
BocaMichael Rispoli
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, Sport | Comments (0)