Good Will Hunting (1997), Mysterious Skin (2004), Jerry Maguire (1996), The Bad News Bears (1976), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), John Q (2002), My Dog Skip (2000), Parenthood (1989) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Little League movies.
Storyline: A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart.
Plot Keywords: professor, genius, friend, premarital sex, harvard, boston massachusetts, child abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian's childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share.
Plot Keywords: male rape, repressed memory, pedophilia, child molestation, man boy relationship, loss of innocence, male nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a successful sports agent. The biggest clients, the respect, a beautiful fiancée, he has it all. Until one night he questions his purpose. His place in the world, and finally comes to terms with what's wrong with his career and life. Recording all his thoughts in a mission statement Jerry feels he has a new lease on life. Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the only person with belief in his abilities (Renée Zellweger) with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had. Along the way he faces the harsh truth which he'd ignored in the past and a host of hardships that he'd never faced before.
Plot Keywords: agent, starting over, idealism, single mother, football player, football, female rear nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: First of a trilogy of films takes an unflinching look at the underbelly of little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming with confidence, the Bears look to sweep into the championship game and avenge an earlier loss to their nemesis, the Yankees.
Plot Keywords: baseball, budweiser, reference to the rolling stones, teen smoking, drinking and driving, child smoking cigarette, teen drinking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Plot Keywords: 1960s, 1950s, 1970s, bar, desert, drunkenness, face slap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
Plot Keywords: hospital, sick child, heart transplant, hostage, insurance, gun in mouth, heart in hand ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
Plot Keywords: mississippi, dog, 1940s, based on novel, childhood, coming of age, invitation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Plot Keywords: dysfunctional family, black comedy, biracial, vibrator, teenage girl, teenage boy, talking while driving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver dollars from him. In the process they also manage to kill his wife and son and destroy his hand. The Major wants revenge so he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny to meet the thugs in a final showdown.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: violence, home invasion, military veteran, social decay, hairy chest, hometown, shootout ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.—Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
Plot Keywords: title directed by female, impotence, haircut, fourth of july, florida, fireworks, diner ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way for a reason and highly believes in God. Together, Joe and Simon go on a journey of trust and friendship to find the answers to many things. Their friendship is put to the test when some unfortunate events happen.
Plot Keywords: confession, gift, sick child, neglected child, precocious child, young love, goodbye ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bright, educated, handsome Conor O'Neill's promising future was wrecked by his gambling addiction, which dragged him into heavy drinking and petty crime, but worst of all, the stifling grip of loan-shark bookies. Desperate for a loan, he agrees to stand in for lawyer friend Jimmy Fleming as coach of a Chicago ghetto Little League baseball team. His sense of pride, becoming the boys' sole idol, and competition, plus their attractive teacher, motivate Conor. But the crushing loan problem rather requires leaving town.
Plot Keywords: female teacher, classroom, hit with a door, gunshot, listening to music on headphones, baseball team, baseball game ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The mobster Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli is under the witness protection program and the FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to take Vinnie and his wife Linda to a house in the suburbs. However their wives leave Vinnie and Barney and the agent gets closer to the gangster and befriends him. Vinnie is a bon vivant and a crook and does not keep the necessary low profile. The District Attorney Hannah Stubbs arrests him but Barney releases him from jail since he needs to testify against the Mafia. Soon Barney falls in love with Stubbs, but Vinnie gets into many troubles calling the attention of two hitmen from the Mafia. The police officer Crystal Rybak protects him and they also falls in love with each other. In the end, the good-hearted Vinnie becomes a prominent personality in the suburbs.
Plot Keywords: pet shop, fundraiser, italian american, fish out of water, informer, small town, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The parents of Alice, a controlled mom, agree to take care of her 3 crazy children, Harper, Turner and Barker, because they feel they don't see their grandchildren enough, when Alice and her husband Phil go on a business trip for Phil. But when everything goes downhill, they need to find a way to prove to Alice, Phil, and themselves that they can be great grandparents.
Plot Keywords: atlanta georgia, chinese restaurant, creativity, precocious child, bully, toy gun, gender roles ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins the San Francisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
Plot Keywords: athlete, bell 206 jet ranger helicopter, billiards, bleeding to death, bubble gum, cheering crowd, chihuahua ...
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