Tag: american football

  • Monday Night Mayhem

    The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback ‘Dandy’ Don Meredith, Keith Jackson, and the combative Howard Cosell as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd…

  • The Slaughter Rule

    A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

  • Blue Crush

    Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one’s blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in…

  • Holiday Reunion

    All Mitch Snider wants for his family is a traditional holiday feast with the relatives. The problem is that he doesn’t have any. That is until he gets an invitation in the mail from his long-lost cousin Woodrow. What follows is a full-course meal of nonstop laughs when the neurotic suburbanites clash with the hippy…

  • Radio

    In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him. Soon, Radio is Jones’ loyal assistant, and he becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School. But things start to sour…

  • Funky Monkey

    A teen genius teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange, the scientist gives the teen some pointers on the girl of his dreams.

  • Friday Night Lights

    A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town’s dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of…

  • A Cinderella Story

    Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school’s Halloween dance.

  • Dirty Deeds

    According to a high school’s lore, the “Dirty Deeds” are a daunting list of dares almost no student has ever completed. To win the student body’s respect and get noticed by his crush, senior Zach is determined to finish the list in the allotted 24-hour time period. As the school’s bullying jocks try to thwart…

  • Two for the Money

    A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

  • The Longest Yard

    Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution’s football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough,…

  • We Are Marshall

    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 and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.

  • Gridiron Gang

    Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.

  • Facing the Giants

    A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.

  • Little Children

    The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.

  • HIM

    Terror strikes when a promising young football player gets invited to train at a team’s isolated compound.

  • Clash

    Liu Yonggan, a food delivery guy nicknamed the “Bolt of Shapingba,” gathers thirty buddies to form a ragtag underdog football team called the “Dock Workers” and compete at the Eternal Bowl championship.

  • The Game Plan

    Bachelor football star Joe Kingman seems to have it all. He is wealthy and carefree, and his team is on the way to capturing a championship. Suddenly, he is tackled by some unexpected news: He has a young daughter, the result of a last fling with his ex-wife. Joe must learn to balance his personal…

  • The Express

    Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

  • Leatherheads

    A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero… everyone could lose out.

  • The Brotherhood of Justice

    High-school students start a vigilante group in their neighbourhood but, as their power increases, they become more abusive and dangerous.