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Hollywood and Sports - Entertainment Trivia
Hollywood and Sports
The union of Hollywood and sports is a natural one. People have been passionate about sports and the irresistible mentality of winning athletes since the days of ancient Rome.
The energy and anxiety of a crucial game can be captured dynamically on celluloid (usually with compelling music pulsating in the background-think Rocky).
Here is lavish list of feature-length films that have centered on, or orbited around, six different sports; likely, there are many more:
| Basketball |
The Basketball Fix (1951)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Hoosiers (1986)
White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Blue Chips (1994)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Space Jam (1996)
Celtic Pride (1996)
Flubber (1997)
Eddie (1996)
Air Bud (1997)
He Got Game (1998)
Love & Basketball (2000) |
| Baseball |
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Rhubarb (1951)
The Winning Team (1952)
The Great American Pastime (1956)
Damn Yankees! (1958)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Bull Durham (1988)
Major League (1989)
Pastime (1991)
The Babe (1992)
A League of Their Own (1992)
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Cobb (1994)
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Major League II (1994)
Ed (1996)
The Last Home Run (1996)
New York Yankees (The Movie) (1998)
For Love of the Game (1999) |
| Boxing |
The Champ (1931 & 1979)
Madison Square Garden (1932)
Ringside Maizie (1941)
Body and Soul (1947 & 1998)
Champion (1949)
Ringside (1949)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
The Great White Hope (1970)
A.K.A. Cassius Clay (made for TV, 1970)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
The Main Event (1979)
Rocky III (1983)
Tough Enough (1983)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
Play It to the Bone (1999)
Ali (2001) |
| Football |
The All-American (1932)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
Paper Lion (1968)
Brian’s Song (made-for-TV, 1971)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Semi-Tough (1978)
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (made-for-TV, 1979)
Coach of the Year (made-for-TV, 1980)
Wildcats (1986)
Necessary Roughness (1991)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Any Given Sunday (1996)
The Replacements (2000)
Remember the Titans (2000) |
| Golf |
Caddyshack (1980)
Caddyshack II (1988)
Tin Cup (1996)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). |
| Hockey |
King of Hockey (1936)
The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck (1975)
Slap Shot (1977)
Youngblood (1986)
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999)
MVP (2000) |
Author: Vicki McClure Davidson
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