Tag: basketball

  • Hoosiers

    Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism…

  • Michael Jackson: Jam

    A music video for Michael Jackson’s 1991 hit song “Jam”.

  • White Men Can’t Jump

    Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.

  • Michael Jordan: Air Time

    “Michael Jordan: Air Time” documents Jordan and the Chicago Bulls’ 1991-92 season, including Jordan dealing with his friend and rival Magic Johnson’s retirement announcement, gambling allegations, talk of the team possibly breaking the long-in-place season win record with 70 victories, filming a music video with Michael Jackson, and other obstacles throughout the course of the…

  • Blue Chips

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn’t winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.

  • Slam Dunk 2: National Tournement

    Set during the Inter High Championships, Shohoku take on Tsukubu, one of this year’s dark horses. It’s a clash of acquaintances as Anzai will face his former student which is now the coach of Tsukubu, while Akagi & Kogure meet Godai their former classmate and Tsukubu’s captain. Finally Sakuragi is irked by the presence of…

  • The 6th Man

    A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother’s basketball team win the NCAA title.

  • Slam Dunk Ernest

    Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.

  • Forget Paris

    Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.

  • Slam Dunk 3: Crisis of Shohoku School

    After losing the titanic match against Kainan High, Team Shohoku and a newly shaven Hanamichi Sakuragi are challenged to an exhibition match by virtual basketball unknowns Ryoukufu High. Coach Anzai sees this as an opportunity for Shohoku to regain their confidence, but Ryoukufu are revealed to have a newly assembled championship calibre lineup and may…

  • Slam Dunk 4: Roar!! Basket Man Spirit

    Ichiro Mizusawa, a player from Rukawa’s old junior high school, Tomigoaka, is diagnosed with a crippling leg condition and wants to play one last game with Rukawa. Hanamichi sets out to help the boy and fulfill his wish.

  • The Basketball Diaries

    A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

  • Eddie

    Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, “Wild Bill” Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an ‘honorary coach’ contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so “Wild…

  • Sunset Park

    A school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.

  • Celtic Pride

    Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent’s star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.

  • Space Jam

    With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.

  • Love & Basketball

    Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college…

  • Fakin’ Da Funk

    Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee — and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black family — are trying to adapt to their mostly black neighborhood of South Central.

  • Air Bud

    A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.

  • A Cool, Dry Place

    Russell, a single father, balances his work as a lawyer with the care of his five-year-old son after his wife abandoned them. When she reappears creating turmoil, he must deal with his new love interest and the job opportunity of a lifetime.

  • He Got Game

    A basketball player’s father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.