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Movie | United States | 03/25/2002 | Drama | Baseball

Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.

Starring

Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Beth Grant, Angus T. Jones, Chad Lindberg, Jay Hernandez, Rick Gonzalez

Directed by

John Lee Hancock

6.9/10

imdb

84%

rotten tomatoes

Moneyball

Movie | United States | 09/22/2011 | Drama | Baseball

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

7.6/10

94%

2,720

A League of Their Own

Movie | United States | 07/01/1992 | Drama | Baseball

7.3/10

81%

298

Field of Dreams

Movie | United States | 04/21/1989 | Drama | Baseball

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

7.5/10

88%

770

The Natural

Movie | United States | 05/11/1984 | Drama | Baseball

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman.

7.4/10

83%

Cobb

Movie | United States | 12/02/1994 | Drama | Baseball

Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb, widely feared and despised, feels misunderstood and wants to set the record straight about 'the greatest ball-player ever,' in his words.

6.4/10

Weeds on Fire

Movie | Hong-Kong | 04/23/2016 | Drama | Baseball

Inspired by the true story of Hong Kong’s first teenage baseball team. In the 1980s, two childhood friends join the Shatin Martins, a Band 3 school baseball team managed by the school principal. From these humble beginnings, the boys experience camaraderie, fall in love and make fateful decisions that resonate throughout their lives amid a changing Hong Kong and its sporting world.

7.0/10

Titanic

Movie | United States | 12/19/1997 | Drama | Disaster

84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

7.9/10

88%

44,682

The Green Mile

Movie | United States | 12/10/1999 | Drama | Prison

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

8.6/10

79%

2,199

The Prestige

Movie | United States | 10/19/2006 | Drama | Illusionists

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

8.5/10

76%

2,051

Good Will Hunting

Movie | United States | 12/05/1997 | Drama | Geniuses

8.3/10

97%

4,438

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Movie | United States | 03/19/2004 | Drama | Break-up

A man, Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

8.3/10

92%

1,956

Strip Search

Movie | United States | 04/27/2004 | HBO | Drama | 11 09

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.

6.2/10

The Laramie Project

\The Laramie Project\ is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of \The Laramie Project,\ the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.

7.1/10

92%

American Beauty

Movie | United States | 09/14/1999 | Drama | Midlife Crisis

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

8.3/10

87%

768

The Fever

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

5.7/10

American History X

Movie | United States | 10/30/1998 | Drama | Racism

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

8.5/10

83%

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