Highest-Rated Movies about 'Former Athlete'

Dial M for Murder (1954), On the Waterfront (1954), Night and the City (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), The Longest Yard (1974), Kills on Wheels (2016), The Last Boy Scout (1991), What We Did on Our Holiday (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Former Athlete movies.

#16. How Do You Know (2010)

Storyline: Star softball player, Lisa, has just been cut from the national team; Scholarly business man, George, has just been indicted from his father's company. With everything that they know in their lives taken from them, Lisa and George attempt to find romance. Lisa's potential boyfriend, Matty, however, is as clueless and perpetually single as they come, and George's girlfriend just dumped him. A chance hook-up through mutual friends, Lisa and George may be able to form a friendship, or more, that can help them climb out of the piles of lemons that life has handed to them.

Plot Keywords: hand over mouth, former athlete, baseball, baseball player, fraud, father son relationship, mental breakdown ...

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#17. Rocky V (1990)

Storyline: Rocky Balboa is forced to retire after having permanent damage inflicted on him in the ring by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Returning home after the Drago bout, Balboa discovers that the fortune that he had acquired as heavyweight champ has been stolen and lost on the stockmarket by his accountant. His boxing days over, Rocky begins to coach an up-and-coming fighter named Tommy Gunn. Rocky cannot compete, however, with the high salaraies and glittering prizes being offered to Gunn by other managers in town.

Plot Keywords: boxing, training, punching, sweat, weightlifting, sit ups, punching bag ...

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