The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Cinderella Man (2005), Undefeated (2011), The Blind Side (2009), The Damned United (2009), McFarland, USA (2015), Slap Shot (1977), Moby Dick (1956) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Pep Talk movies.
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: based on true story, underwater scene, scene during opening credits, football movie, hot dog, spanking, coin toss ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim is a young man who, after deciding he can't make it on his own, moves back to his hometown in Indiana -- under his parents' roof. He's saved from his family's dysfunction by a local woman and her son, who sees him as a father figure.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: coma, little boy, loser, theft, stealing, single mother, prison visit ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Caroline "Line" Found is the star volleyball player on the Iowa City West High School Volleyball Team and well-loved by members of the community. With Line as the captain, the Trojans have been undefeated and everyone has high hopes for West to win the championship again after the previous year, especially against their long-time rival, City High. During a party at her house, Line decides to secretly sneak away to visit her mother Ellyn at the hospital, where she is being treated for cancer. That night, Line herself is killed in a moped accident, leaving the entire community in mourning. Despite the school and community still in shock over Line's death, the Trojans' coach, Kathy Bresnahan continues to hold volleyball practice. She directly approaches Line's best friend, Kelley, encouraging her to return because Line would have wanted them to continue. Kelley refuses, but Bresnahan persists until Kelley agrees. After it is revealed that the Trojans lost their most recent match due to forfeit, Kelley encourages the entire school that they need to continue for Line's sake..
Plot Keywords: cafe, bicycle, school bell, axe, chopping wood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, beer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of two girls, Randy and Evie. Randy is a low economic class lesbian living with other lesbians including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she begins to feel a passion for her she's never felt before. What follows is a sweet, tender romance between the two while Evie is cast away by her friends and Randy is chided by her family. The two don't care, though, because they are in love.—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
Plot Keywords: chewing gum, drawing, drinking, drink, drug use, earphones, ex girlfriend ...
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: New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste...
Plot Keywords: scheme, based on film, based on stage musical, audition, remake, playwright, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback's anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games' outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he's a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.
Plot Keywords: father son relationship, airliner, dancing, restaurant, wealth, urination, threesome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: rope, gym, seasickness, comedy of errors, acoustic guitar, guitar, serenade ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite expecting sniggers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Plot Keywords: coach, goat, mother daughter relationship, custody battle, ex husband ex wife relationship, high school football, doberman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
Plot Keywords: female full frontal nudity, male full frontal nudity, small town, falling in love, sports team, marriage, christmas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Bakers, a family of 14, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart.
Plot Keywords: kiss, megaphone, loss of pet, locker room, interview, husband wife relationship, hospital ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three men, three dreams. It's 1976 in Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon's American Basketball Association team languishes in last place, with few fans in the seats. Jackie dreams of a merger with the NBA. A tough-minded point guard named Monix is at the end of his career; he's played on the champion Celtics but accepts a trade to Flint to be close to Lynn, the love of his life. Clarence "Coffee" Brown dreams of stardom: he's the Tropics' best player, but he's a hotdog who doesn't value teamwork. When the trio learns that a merger is in the works that won't include the Tropics, they pull the team together to try to achieve the impossible. Can dreams come true in Flint?
Plot Keywords: promoter, face slap, singer, shot in the arm, scene during end credits, roller skates, riot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: By means of an accident the soul of David and his swinging grandfather get swapped. While the grandfather's body is still in coma, he enjoys having a young body again and repairs some facts in David's life, who he finds not to be self-confident enough.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: wish, soul transference, body swap, grandfather grandson relationship, 18 year old, car crash, bully ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Struggling Bronx mechanic Jaden Miller uses boxing to save himself and his mother from being homeless. With a legendary trainer, and a reality show built around him, Miller goes for the title.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, 2010s, written by director, determination, 24 year old, heart attack, bronx new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish woman from Detroit who became a boxing manager, guiding several major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer (Epps), who's reportedly a composite of several including Toney, McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually left her husband of 30 years, and moved to Los Angeles, becoming the commissioner of the International Female Boxers Association...—austin4577@aol.com
Plot Keywords: caught in a lie, puerto rican, boxing match, police arrest, honda, punching bag, fried chicken ...
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