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| Ali |
A golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where
20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated his idol, 1900 US Open champion,
Englishman, Harry Vardon. The film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win a U.S. Open. Amateur Golf
in that era was then a sport only for the wealthy, and Francis came
from an immigrant family that was part of the working class.
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| The Longest Yard |
Perhaps Sandler's best movie, the Longest Yard is yet another movie that can generate more than a few different emotions. Adam Sandler plays the protagonist, Paul Crewe, a disgraced former professional football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL, who is forced to form a team from the prison inmates to play football against their guards. It marked as first movie for the great Khali from India.
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| Invictus |
One of the greatest sport/political movies of all time, and without a doubt the best, perhaps the only good, rugby movie of all time. Morgan Freeman was terrific as Nelson Mandela, the President who views rugby as a way of united the apartheid country in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that
there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this
sports drama. The definition of a movie where education prevails over athletics.
Towards the end of the season, he sees that
their grades, and most notably his star players', are faltering and that
they won't have a realistic chance at college. He locks up the
gym, forces them into the library and gets them to start working. A
large amount of the kids go to college, and Coach Carter's deed is done. A great, true story, one that will make you laugh and tear at the same time.
