Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world's most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.
Danny "Mean Machine" Meehan (Vinnie Jones), a famous British football captain, goes to jail for drunk driving and assaulting police officers. Governor (David Hemmings), a devoted football supporter, pays a large sum of money for Danny to be sent just in his jail because he wants 'Mean Machine' to coach a team of prison guards. However, Danny realizes that if he agrees, he will never go at large. Therefore he offers to assemble a team of convicts, who can play practice games against the guards. Without much foresight, the warden accepts the offer...
The movie follows Frank W. Dux (Jean Claude Van Damme), a soldier in the U.S. Military who is preparing for an underground, deadly dangerous martial arts tournament called Kumite. As a kid, he was adopted and trained by Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao), a Japanese master of art. Due to the unwearied training Frank went from a below average fighter to invincibility. Dux goes AWOL to participate in the Kumite that takes place in Hong Kong. Two army officers, Helmer (Norman Burton) and Rawlins (Forest Whitaker) are assigned to hunt down and arrest him. Despite various obstacles he comes across along the way, Dux becomes the first person from the Western Hemisphere to win the tournament and joins the Brotherhood of the Black Dragon...
Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
The story of Mike Tyson. Form his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulant life moves quickly, never focussing for long on anything in particular.
Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg), a bright high school student, has always dreamt of becoming a championship figure skater but she is forced to abandon her dream and head for Harvard to please her domineering professor mother Joan Carlyle (Joan Cusack). Fortunately for Casey, she gets the chance to make her dream come true when she visits a skating club and starts training with champion-in-the-making Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere) and her mother Tina (Kim Cattrall), a former professional skater. The more Casey trains, the more she finds herself attracted to the sport, the more she becomes obsessed with the idea of competing in the championship circuit. Does she have enough courage to ruin her mother's hopes completely in order to achieve her childhood dream?
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback.
This uplifting family comedy concerns Joe Kingman (Dwayne Johnson), a wealthy and popular NFL quarterback who happily lives his carefree single life. His hugely self-absorbed existence is drastically changed by an 8-year-old precocious girl named Peyton Kelly (Madison Pettis) who appears out of the blue, claiming to be his daughter from a former marriage. An egoistical, fun- and party-loving bachelor, he reluctantly accepts the duty of taking care of Peyton and eventually becomes the loving dad the girl craves.
Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true
Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is addicted to alcohol, gambling and scalping tickets. He has been down on his luck recently and various bookies have become increasingly impatient with him. Desperate for cash to pay off his debts, he seeks help from his old friend Jimmy Flemming (Mike McGlone) who agrees to lend money provided that Conor coaches a baseball team of troubled kids from the Cabrini Green housing projects.
Beer, broads and baseball combine with hilarious results in ARTIE LANGE'S BEER LEAGUE...an over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games seem to have a lot more to do with getting into fights for macho dominance than hitting home runs. Artie is an unemployed and unmotivated drunk that is predictably still living with his mother. He is on a losing softball team, and he and his teammates are facing the end of softball as they know it if they can't pull it together. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly alters Artie's low self-esteem, and the odds for winning, not only the league trophy, but a new life, are certainly looking up. He and his teammates will have to go for the win, and survive all the comedy and chaos along the way.
Having pulverized Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) basks in his glory and starts resting on his laurels. He only fights against easy contenders for the title of champion. Swollen with fame and wealth, Rocky devotes less time to training and eventually loses the speed and precision of his punching. Besides, old traumas tell on him greatly. So when a young powerful hurricane-like boxer named Clubber Lang (Mr. T) gets into the ring, Rocky fails to withstand several knockout blows and finally falls as though dead. After the shameful fight nobody wants to know him any more. Only Apollo Creed, once his opponent and now his companion in misfortune, is inclined to give him morale support.
Ignacio is a monk who aspires to be a professional wrestler (luchador = fighter in Spanish). This is against the other priests. He wrestles under the name "Nacho" for the children to help pay for their needs in hiding. The movie is what happens when he does this.
Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville), an office drone, must raise a large sum of money to pay for his gardener’s surgery, while his hapless uncle Gary (Brian Cox) owes $40,000 in gambling debts. Desperate to find the cash, they come up with a nefarious yet effective scheme. Steve and Gary decide to rig the Special Olympics Championship by having the former posing as a mentally challenged athlete so that the latter can bet on him to defeat the six-time medalist Jimmy Washington (Leonard Flowers). Thus they hope to earn enough money to solve both of their financial problems.
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.
American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, but before the play-offs an oyster food-poisoning wipes out his first team for a month. Dan Heller, an insurance salesman and former college quarterback, who was hired -relactantly, but his wife twisted his arm- just for practice, now has to captain and train a bunch of rookies and old-timers against the hardest adversaries. Dichter decides to sign up triple Super Bowl-winner Tommy Baker in Dan's place...
Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) has been tied to his overprotective mother's (Kathy Bates) apron strings for thirty years. He works as a water boy for the local college football team, all players of which constantly make a mock of him. Boucher would always have remained in the shadow of the champions if he hadn't been unexpectedly fired from his job by Coach Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed). He is forced to work for a rival college team, and his new coach, Klein (Henry Winkler), makes a surprising discovery that the water boy can run and tackle like no one he has ever seen. The wise coach signs him as a new player and Bobby soon becomes the best linebacker in the history of college football. But he has to keep his glory a secret from his overbearing mom as she disapproves of football.
"Everyone's Hero" is a heartwarming comedy-adventure, telling the story of a young boy's thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project's theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film's originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve.
Four buddies - Rick (Jason London), Luke (Zach Galifianakis), Anthony (Flex Alexander) and Pig Pen (Derek Hamilton) – can't imagine life without explosive parties, gorgeous girls, and especially snowboarding. The extreme sportsmen live and work happily in Bull Mountain, an Alaskan ski town, until the town's founder, Papa Muntz (Lewis Arquette), takes the ferry, and his son, Ted (Willie Garson), makes up his mind to sell the mountain to a hotshot Colorado ski mogul, John Majors (Lee Majors). The foursome are dead set against Majors' idea of reducing the staff and turning the little town into a fashionable ski resort. The buddies start a war against the land developer, with the aid of his daughter Anna (Caroline Dhavernas), who Rick is hopelessly in love with...
