Highest-Rated Movies about 'Defying Expectations', Sort by Popularity

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021), You Don't Know Jack (2010), Any One of Us (2019), Without Limits (1998), Mask (1985), Dolphin Island (2021), Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), The Perfect Candidate (2019) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Defying Expectations movies.

#1. Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)

Storyline: Street Gang will take us inside the minds and hearts of the Sesame Street creators to help us understand not only how they produced this groundbreaking show, but also what it was like to be at the center of a cultural and social phenomenon. Street Gang concentrates on the most experimental and groundbreaking period of Sesame Street. The original surviving creators weave together personal narratives, and never before seen behind the scenes footage to reveal how they collaborated to push every boundary that confronted them, changing television, and changing the world.

Plot Keywords: artist, producer, character, puppeteer, writer, inspiring, heartwarming ...

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#4. Without Limits (1998)

Storyline: The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: coach, girlfriend, friend, teammate, wife, runner, moving ...

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#5. Mask (1985)

Storyline: Rusty Dennis (Cher) is the mother of Rocky (Eric Stoltz), a seriously deformed, but extremely intelligent and emotionally warm teenager. Rusty is a no-nonsense mother whose wild lifestyle is often at odds with her tenderness and protectiveness towards Rocky. She is determined that Rocky be given the same chances and happiness that everyone else takes for granted.

Plot Keywords: mother, blind person, father figure, teenager, melodramatic, tense, witty ...

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#6. Dolphin Island (2021)

Storyline: After losing her parents, teenager Annabel Coleridge lives with her fisherman grandfather on a Caribbean island paradise surrounded by an extended family of loving but quirky oddballs and her best friend, a dolphin named Mitzy. Everything changes when her rich maternal grandparents arrive with a shifty lawyer to bring her back to New York. It's up to her grandfather, her friends, Desaray, her new social worker, her charming son, Mateo, and Mitzy to find a way for Anna to stay on the island home she loves so much.—Mr. Puppy

Plot Keywords: grandfather, friend, dolphin, neighbor, social worker, teen girl, spirited ...

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#7. Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)

Storyline: After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman's family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: friend, poacher, ape, chimpanzee, spirited, gripping, wild ...

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#8. The Perfect Candidate (2019)

Storyline: Maryam is an ambitious young doctor working in a small town clinic in Saudi Arabia. After Maryam is prevented from traveling to Dubai in search of a better job, a bureaucratic mixup leads her to stumble on the application for her local city elections and she decides to run.—yusufpiskin

Plot Keywords: candidate, friend, talk show host, citizen, doctor, inspiring, heartwarming ...

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#9. As You Like It (2006)

Storyline: Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior (the banished Duke), is raised at the court of Duke Frederick (who is younger brother to Duke Senior and took over his Dukedom), with her cousin Celia (daughter to Duke Frederick). She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but before she can even think twice about it, she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia, being Rosalind's best friend, goes with Rosalind (who is disguised as a boy, Ganymede) and Touchstone, the court's fool, to the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing the wrath of Orlando's eldest brother. What follows is an elaborate scheme devised by the cross-dressing Rosalind to find out the verity of Orlando's supposed passion for her, and to further capture his heart, through the witty and mischievous façade of Ganymede.—Jess D.

Plot Keywords: shepherdess, brother, cousin, older brother, family member, japan, forest ...

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#10. Ice Princess (2005)

Storyline: A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan. Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen--three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother, she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver, Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess."

Plot Keywords: figure skater, rival, mother, coach, brother, uplifting, melodramatic ...

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#11. Beautifully Broken (2018)

Storyline: A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.—Randy Hartley and Eric Welch

Plot Keywords: family, father, tense, emotional, vehicle, church, village ...

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#12. Fast Track: No Limits (2008)

Storyline: Speed.. It's exhilaration. It's freedom. It's risk. And it's money, fast money: quickly won and quickly lost. For four young people speed is a way of life, but as they soon come to realize speed comes at a high cost. On the streets debts are not settled with cash, they are settled in blood.

Plot Keywords: friend, business owner, adult, teamwork, race car driver, gripping, intense ...

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