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Tag: baseball

  • How Do You Know

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    After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.

  • Moneyball

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    The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

  • Trouble with the Curve

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    Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

  • 42

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    In 1946, Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball’s infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate…

  • Million Dollar Arm

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    In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America.…

  • The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

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    A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life’s disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.

  • Where Hope Grows

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    Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he mindlessly sleepwalks through his days and the challenge of raising his teenager…

  • Blended

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    Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknownst to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for…

  • Ferrell Takes the Field

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    A documentary that follows Will Ferrell as he takes the field in five Major League Baseball training games, playing all nine positions for ten different teams in a single day.

  • Jackie Robinson

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    Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame to speak out against the discrimination he saw on and off the field, angering fans, the press, and even teammates who had once celebrated him…

  • Battery

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    Takumi Harada is an extremely gifted baseball pitcher. Upon entering junior high school, Takumi moves to a town situated in the mountains due to his father’s job transfer. There, he meets a new classmate Go Nagakura, a catcher who is able to get Takumi’s most powerful pitches. Takumi and Go both join the school’s baseball…

  • Boy Hood

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  • Spaceman

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    Story of former major league baseball pitcher Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee following his release by the Montreal Expos.

  • Fastball

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    Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming…

  • The Phenom

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    A rookie pitcher undergoes psychotherapy to overcome the yips.

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

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    A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

  • Fences

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    In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

  • Papita 2da Base

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    Andrés and Julissa now parents to a seven year old Carlitos struggle to live happily as a family despite being fervent fans of rival teams and of Vicente’s (Julissa’s father) disapproval.

  • Brockmire

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    A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife’s serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.

  • Prison Playbook

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    With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.

  • Major 2nd

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    Shigeno Daigo is an elementary student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit…