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A basketball coach (Cathy Lee Crosby) hired by mistake is harassed by her superior. The American Game: 1979 Documentary Follows two high school basketball players from different backgrounds [1] Fast Break: 1979 Comedy Gabe Kaplan as a New Yorker who dreams of being a coach and finally gets a shot. [6] The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh: 1979 Comedy
"The movie contains a certain amount of basketball, but for once here's a sports movie where everything doesn't depend on who wins the big game," he wrote. "It's how they win it. What Friedkin brings to the story is a tone that feels completely accurate; the movie is a morality play, told in the realistic, sometimes cynical terms of modern high ...
Warrior Strong is a 2023 Canadian drama film, directed by Shane Belcourt. [1] The film stars Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Bilal Irving, a headstrong aspiring professional basketball player who is asked by his former high school principal Jules (Sarah Podemski) to return to the school as assistant to head basketball coach Avery Schmidt (Andrew Dice Clay).
Below, find the 25 best basketball movies of all time. 25. Celtic Pride. It’s easy to mistake Daniel Stern for a young Bill Simmons in Celtic Pride, the 1996 comedy co-written by Judd Apatow and ...
Gene Hackman's Norman Dale takes a job coaching a high school basketball team in Hickory, Indiana, in this Oscar-nominated movie, widely considered to be one of the basketball films of all time ...
Hustle is a 2022 American sports comedy-drama film [2] directed by Jeremiah Zagar, written by Taylor Materne and Will Fetters, and co-produced by and starring Adam Sandler as a down-on-his-luck National Basketball Association (NBA) scout who discovers a raw but talented basketball player in Spain (Juancho Hernangómez) and tries to prepare him for the NBA draft.
1. Hoosiers. Hollywood feel-good movie-making at its finest, this 1986 classic features Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, who brings a checkered past to his role as head coach at Hickory High. Based on ...
The film stars Woody Harrelson as a temperamental minor-league basketball coach who, after an arrest, must coach a team of players with disabilities as community service. Kaitlin Olson, Ernie Hudson, and Cheech Marin also star. Champions was released in the United States on March 10, 2023, by Focus Features. The film received mixed reviews from ...