Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sport. Show all posts

Draft Day


At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams. (110 mins)
Director: Ivan Reitman
Stars: Scott Rothman, Rajiv Joseph

Concussion



In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Director: Peter Landesman
Stars: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks

McFarland, USA

Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach. He sees that some of the students are worth starting a cross-country team and turns seven students with no hope into one of the best cross-country teams.
Director: Niki Caro
Stars: Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Ramiro Rodriguez

Eight Men Out

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Director: John Sayles
Stars: John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner

The Blind Side

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Director: John Lee Hancock
Stars: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw

Unbroken

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Director: Angelina Jolie
Stars: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson

Chariots of Fire

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Director: Hugh Hudson
Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell