Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
不論你是誰,不管你的工作領域為何,總會有比你年輕、迅速、強壯的後起之秀緊追在後,並輕而易舉的取代你。 東尼(艾爾帕西諾)愛足球勝過愛自己生命,每日早上起床的理由只為它。東尼身為邁阿密鯊魚隊的教練,在四年前該隊連續兩年贏得全美足球大賽冠軍時,那可是他生涯中最光榮的時刻,但如今江山替換,英雄球員漸漸衰老,尤其在隊長傑克(丹尼斯奎德)因傷而光榮不在後,他如今所面對的是場場戰敗。幸而冷板凳球員威利(吉米福克斯)在一次比賽中,一砲而紅,大受觀眾喜愛,才讓鯊魚隊重新燃起希望,但東尼卻要面對更大的衝擊....。 鯊魚隊的年輕女老板克莉絲汀(卡麥蓉狄亞)從父親手中季承球隊的經營權,但她不像父親般,是個維護崇高運動精神的捍衛者。相反的,她以投資為目的,壯大球隊的身價為目標。優異的行銷手法,聰明的媒體策略,讓她不講人情世故,無情的淘汰無用球員,一切以利益為先。而後起之秀威利,見識傑克的慘淡下場,也認定唯有在短暫的職業生涯中,海削一票、享盡物質才是聰明之途。這些都大大的與東尼的理念背道而馳。 克莉絲汀與東尼的不對盤,使兩人對峙的好戲每天上演,她可不是軟弱的小女生,對於這場自己的戰爭,她可一點都不讓步。而威利以反抗為手段,試圖摧毀東尼根深蒂固所重視的球隊倫理。 東尼面對讓他又愛又恨的威利、克莉絲汀施加的龐大壓力,再加上極力想重返球場的傑克,和鯊魚隊四分五裂的球員...,東尼開始懷疑他是否已逐漸失去呼風喚雨的地位,並領悟到這個事實:世代替換,後起之秀緊追其後,他除了面對自己的挑戰,也面臨了自己的挑戰。東尼--這位資深老鳥,要如何扭轉乾坤?!
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?
《12孤漢》改編自真實故事。在經濟大蕭條期間,沃斯堡一家孤兒院的橄欖球隊從最初沒有鞋,甚至連橄欖球也沒有,篳路藍縷的情況下,一路打進德州錦標賽,所向披靡。他們在賽季中獲得一連串的勝利,這些弱者堅韌不拔的精神鼓舞了整座城市、整個州,在整個國家需要重建時重燃希望,甚至引起了羅斯福總統的注意。
The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
榮獲2012年奧斯卡最佳紀錄長片,精彩描述憑藉自信心及努力不懈逆轉局勢的運動家故事,可謂橄欖球隊的林書豪傳奇!本片敘述美國曼非斯貧民區的高中橄欖球隊,他們從未贏球,更缺乏金援,連教練都只能仰賴志工。然而他們靠著努力不懈的鍛鍊,以及教練人生啟發式的帶領,一步步逆轉頹勢,展現運動家精神,走上巔峰舞台。
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winning percentages in football history.
A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to escape with a college scholarship and a pro career. David's father is the overbearing taskmaster vicariously living through his son. The third side of the triangle is Coach Marshall, a hypercritical and cruel man who sees David as the key to his future success. David's lockstep commitment to his father and coach is altered when he witnesses a teammate die after a grueling practice.
He went off to war an unknown soldier and returned a beloved national hero. Often dismissed as a "do-nothing" president and a good-natured bumbler, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- the last American president to be born in the 19th century -- was actually a skillful politician, a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated presidents. Two-part documentary from American Experience.
Picks up with the legendarily fiery coach after his exit from the NFL, as he teams with Electronic Arts to become the unlikely co-creator of a pioneering video game franchise.
Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation.
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
Football is a religion to many people. But few know the depths of both faiths as well as Bill McCartney, the former head football coach of the University of Colorado and the founder of Promise Keepers, a Christian men’s ministry. “The Gospel According to Mac” tells the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of Coach Mac’s controversial national championship run – two seasons that followed multiple arrests and strife between his mostly African-American players and the Boulder police, continued with McCartney’s own daughter becoming pregnant by the team’s quarterback before seeing that same quarterback struck by cancer, and culminated in consecutive Orange Bowl match-ups against Notre Dame. Bill McCartney’s passionate and often polarizing beliefs have made him many enemies and many admirers, but it’s difficult to deny that he embodies the essential issues facing football in America to this day.
In Chile, where European football (i.e., soccer) is the dominant sport, Coach Carlos Zuniga offers at-risk teenage boys a unique opportunity to learn and play American-style football. He struggles through a grueling season trying to balance teaching the unfamiliar game to his players while fighting for recognition and funding from city officials who have no interest in the sport.