Favorite/Best Sports[-themed] Films?

Rookie of the Year! Rookie of the Year!

The Longest Yard
North Dallas Forty
The Paper Lion
Mr. Baseball
Men With Brooms (for our Canadian Members)
Rollerball (the original version with James Caan)

Richard

I love Sports themed films! Love most that have been mentioned already, but I don't see my personal favorite on the list- Glory Road

The Rookie

The Pride of the Yankees

And, while it's a little cheesy, The Natural

Cinderella Man and Million Dollar Baby

And we can't forget Waterboy!

The King of Kong.

No, seriously. It's a documentary about a guy trying to break the world Donkey Kong record, but it fits the sports movie formula so perfectly that it outdoes almost all of them.

Breaking Away

Ice Castles

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A League of Their Own.

Great movie. Although I don't normally like watching baseball, I love a good baseball movie. Baseball can be painfully boring to watch live, but baseball movies cut out all the boring stuff and show just the hits and home runs.

And League of Their Own has a great story.

Caddyshack
Rudy
Slap Shot
Kingpin

Chariots of Fire

A League of Their Own
Major League
Bull Durham
Mystery Alaska
Men With Brooms
Tin Cup

... and if the planets are properly aligned... Bad Ice!

Mighty Ducks! Mighty Ducks!


(Are you guys getting that I like my sports flicks with a side of cheese and teenage underdog? They were great when I was growing up.)

The Program

I'll add my voice for A League Of Their Own. I thought it was rather interesting, once I got around the hype that was built around Rosie O'Donnell and Madonna being in it (my hometown, South Bend, IN, had a team in the league! Go South Bend Blue Sox, league champs of 1951 and 1952! w00t!)

Bull Durham was great, too. Probably the only movie where I can tolerate Kevin Costner.

I remember screaming my head off during the final race in Breaking Away. I need to see that again.

And I'll add Rollerball to the list. The original, not the remake.

Some of these aren't necessarily the "Best," but are definitely Favorites.

Remember the Titans
A League of Their Own
The Sandlot
The Mighty Ducks
Major League
Mystery, Alaska
Brian's Song
The Cutting Edge
Stick It
Hoosiers

I don't generally like sports movies, but Cinderella Man was great.

Cinderella Man takes my top honors. A League of their Own was also fantastic.

Now what the heck was the name of that movie where the whole football team died in a plane crash? I can't think of the name, but it was a true account. It's not Alive. It's the other one.

Tri

triceretops said:

Cinderella Man takes my top honors. A League of their Own was also fantastic.

Now what the heck was the name of that movie where the whole football team died in a plane crash? I can't think of the name, but it was a true account. It's not Alive. It's the other one.

Tri

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