Lähiön kirpputorilta pieni Em-tyttö saa rahoillaan enemmän kuin pelkän antiikkisen puurasian. Rasiassa on nimittäin ikivanha demoni, joka asettuu Emin vartaloon. Hänen vanhempansa näkevät, miten muutos tapahtuu. Pian heidän tekee mieli repiä silmät päästään silkasta pelosta! Tanskalainen ohjaaja Ole Bornedal ja legendaarinen Sam Raimi ovat yhdessä luoneet The Possession -elokuvan, joka perustuu uskomattomiin tositapahtumiin. Anna pahuuden vallata sinut!
A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.
Jackin elämä näytti olevan high schooolissa nousujohteinen. Hän oli koripalloilmiö ja vapaalippu yliopistoon oli takataskussa, hän kuitenkin jätti kaiken ja hylkäsi samalla lupaavalta näyttäneen tulevaisuutensa. Vuosia myöhemmin entisen koulunsa pyytäessä häntä valmentamaan keskinkertaista koripallojoukkuetta, hän hyväksyy työtehtävän hieman vastentahtoisesti, mutta tuoko sekään pelastusta sitä kaipaavalle joukkueelle sekä hänelle itselleen?
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 for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral, but nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed... and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.
Bilal Irving, a professional basketball player returns to his small, Northern Ontario town of Dumont. He re-connects with his former coach, and conflict ensues as they both struggle to put their egos and complicated pasts aside to mentor the town’s only basketball team.
Äiti ja tytär, Claire ja Sarah, muuttavat uudelle paikkakunnalle. Claire aloittelee virassaan paikallisen koulun apulaisrehtorina ja Sarah kutsutaan koulun koripallojoukkueeseen. Elämä pikkukaupungissa näyttää saavan hyvän alun, mutta yhdessä yössä elämä kääntyy painajaiseksi. Kun Sarah katoaa Claire ei suostu uskomaan, että kyse on teinitytön oikusta. Hän tuntee tyttärensä paremmin.
Civil Rights Movement activist, TSSAA Hall of Fame Basketball Coach, swim coach, teacher, musical director, father, grandfather, and friend to many, Coach Sylvester Ford Sr. was known by many as “Big Time.” The nickname was given to him as a kid for his height, but “Big Time” showed time and time again why his nickname was about way more than his looks– it’s also because of how he showed up big for his community. Big Time chronicles the life of legendary Memphis basketball coach, Sylvester Ford Sr., while inspiring us all to live “big time” lives along the way
A candid conversation between two basketball icons that explores the concept of "Greatness" and what it takes to achieve it.
Coach, mentor, social activist ...the life and legacy of Dean Smith, North Carolina's legendary basketball coach - who went to 11 Finals Fours and won two National Championships, with players like Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Vince Carter and Jerry Stackhouse - is remembered and celebrated by former players and colleagues.
Charlie Fitzpatrick is the most successful high school basketball coach in Georgia history. While many of his players think of him as a father, his relationship with his own "bookworm" son, Evan, is strained. With the help of his wife, Laura and Evan's wife, Heather, Charlie determines the best way to connect and bond is to take his son and grandson, Markie, who has just announced he's dropping out of college to tour with his folk band, to a rustic mountain cabin for a weekend retreat. Only this cabin is the same site where he took his many winning teams to test their mettle over a grueling military-style obstacle course, the same one Evan, as a student never got the chance to complete. This is Charlie's idea of fun, Evan's idea of a nightmare, and Markie's idea of-well he's young and idealistic; he's just going with the flow. .
From Paseo to Pembroke is a Kansas City documentary retrospective on the golden age of high school basketball. From '88 to '98—from the Dotte all the way to Raytown. Told by the era's premier coaches, players and media personalities.
In 2011, Providence College would hire Providence native Ed Cooley as Head Coach of the Friars' Men's Basketball team. In 2022, he would win the school their first Big East Regular Season Title in school history. In 2023, he would leave for their hated rival, Georgetown University. Why did he leave?
The 1989 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1988–89 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, and the conclusion of the 1989 NBA Playoffs. The series was a rematch of the previous year's championship round between the Eastern Conference playoff champion Detroit Pistons and the Western Conference playoff champion Los Angeles Lakers.
This documentary profiles the life and career of Pat Summitt, the NCAA's winningest basketball coach, who resigned from her post at the University of Tennessee in 2012 due to early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
The heroines of the film are Soviet basketball players who take part in international competitions for the Hera Cup. Exciting basketball matches, the nobility of a Soviet athlete who saved the life of a Greek basketball player, the anxiety of first love-all these and other events make up the plot of the film.
Born on Halloween, 1935, Dale Brown's fight for justice began the day his father walked out - two days before he was born.About how an overachiever from tiny Minot, North Dakota relentlessly fought his way to the top.