The Breakfast Club (1985), Remember the Titans (2000), Undefeated (2011), The Blind Side (2009), Horse Feathers (1932), The Freshman (1925), United (2011), The Express (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Football Field movies.
Storyline: A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.—Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: athlete, football player, coach, jock, dark, gritty, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. After his medals are stripped on a technicality and his dream of coaching is shattered, Thorpe's life begins to unravel. His marriage to his college sweetheart ends, and he is a forgotten figure, except by Glenn 'Pop' Warner, his coach at Carlisle College.—<jmilani@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: athlete, coach, wife, spirited, touching, pennsylvania, boarding school ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many young kids.
Plot Keywords: counselor, juvenile delinquent, football player, coach, co-worker, delinquent, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends--one an older-brother figure, the other a girl with whom he is in love-- fall for each other.
Plot Keywords: nerd, football player, teen girl, bully, coach, endearing, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D'Amato to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D'Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci, now coming into her own after her father's death. Christina's driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the...
Plot Keywords: coach, football player, wife, sexy woman, cheerleader, team owner, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's draft day in the NFL, and as General Manager of the Cleveland Browns, Sonny is forced to come up with a big move. After trading for the number one pick, Sonny has to choose between a lower-ranked linebacker with a questionable past, or a celebrated quarterback with a questionable future. All the while, Sonny is walking in the footsteps of his father, and personal complications force their way to the surface.
Plot Keywords: manager, girlfriend, football player, agent, football coach, owner, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. By his mid-twenties Knute saves enough to attend obscure Notre Dame University, where he excels in football and chemistry. He and a teammate develop the forward pass as an offensive weapon while working as life guards on summer break and use it to upset heavily favored Army in a historic game. After graduation Rockne becomes a teacher while coaching part-time but ultimately abandons academics to devote all his energies to football. During his tenure as head coach at the school, he develops such outstanding players as George Gipp, who dies prematurely from a strep infection, and the Four Horseman while introducing many innovative tactics including the backfield shift. Rockne, known for his staccato motivational speeches, devotes his life to maintaining the integrity of the sport he loves and promoting it as an integral component in the development of the American character.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: football player, professor, coach, wife, heartwarming, indiana, football field ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clique. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher than he expected.
Plot Keywords: nerd, cheerleader, bully, jock, neighbor, hilarious, mushy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Inspired by a true story, WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL tells the remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
Plot Keywords: football coach, football player, high-school student, teacher, parent, dead person, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two teenage boys will do anything to get money to buy season tickets for their local team.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, abusive father, mother, grandfather, teacher, disturbing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: James Stewart plays "Truck" Cross an enlisted soldier who has been accepted into the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Truck meets Roger "Rog" Ash (Robert Young) and Richard "Dickie" Gates Junior (Tom Brown). Three very different young men become roommates. Truck Cross has a secret he doesn't want let out. Ash is full of himself and needs to learn to be part of a team. Gates seems to just want to belong to something get away from his mother (played by Billie Burke, whom you will instantly remember as Glinda the Good Witch) The boys make it through their Plebe year (Freshman) year, and into the Sophomore year is when the plot really begins to thicken, Truck's secret is found out, and the outcome could mean expulsion, Ash thinks he's not Navy at all and it could lead to expulsion as well, Captain Dawes (played by the incomparable Lionel Barrymore) always seems to be in the right place at the right time to help make things happen for this threesome. Will the three of them make it to the Army versus Navy Game and who will wind up with Gates' sister Pat?—Harold Thornton
Plot Keywords: cadet, football player, student, roommate, naval officer, coach, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story. Kennedy Hansen is a funny, loving child but inexplicably she begins to fall. It takes years for the diagnosis...Juvenile Batten Disease, an extremely rare, terrible and terminal prognosis. There is no cure for Batten Disease and after living only sixteen years, Kennedy leaves behind a great legacy of love and friendship. But her story doesn't end at her death, that's when the miracles really begin.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, parent, friend, cheerleader, sad, spirited, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the vein of CLUELESS and NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, FREAK SHOW tells the moving, heartwarming, and hilarious story of Billy Bloom, a boldly confident, wildly eccentric teenager, who faces intolerance and persecution at his ultra conservative high school, and decides to fight back on behalf of all the misunderstood freaks of the world by running for the title of homecoming queen.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, teen girl, transfer student, mother, father, bully, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A rustic Oregon town is the backdrop for this tale of men and women touched by love's inescapable spell. From Bradley, the hopeless romantic who looks for love in all the wrong places; to Harry, a local professor with the wisdom and experience to guide those close to him; to young, beautiful Chloe, who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar.
Plot Keywords: barista, business owner, real estate agent, beautiful woman, college professor, girlfriend, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the "scab" who replaces the star QB.
Plot Keywords: quarterback, coach, football player, cheerleader, amusing, inspiring, washington state ...
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