American sport films



Eight Men Out. Decent film but more for baseball aficionados than a general audience. Great story though. It kinf of dovetails with Field of Dreams.

Bull Durham is a just a great sports film. Tim Robbins is just so funny in that and he plays it great opposite Costner's cool.

Cobb. Another baseball film and for my money one of Tommy Lee Jones' best ever roles playing the lead part of the aging but still mean as hell Ty Cobb. Cracking film.

'The South may not rise again young man, but my dick will.'
Watched it last weekend, Tim Robbins, hilarious as "Meat". Susan Sarandon steals the movie for me though
 
The Fortune Cookie
Jack Lemmon is flattened by player Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson at a football game. Lemmon's lawyer brother-in-law "whiplash Willie" Ginrich (Walter Matthau) advises Lemmon to exaggerate his injuries and sue.

Not a lot of football in it but a great film.
 
I forgot about the film '42'. The Jackie Robinson story and how he became the first black pro baseball player to play with the white folk.*
Good historical drama with the backdrop of brave men wanting to knock down barriers just after WWII. Also gets the seal of approval from Robinson's missus so it's a fairly accurate piece.

I love baseball. It's just a sport that throws up interesting story after interesting story. Only boxing films rival the sport for good cinema in terms of numbers produced imho.

*Mebbys - Moses Fleetwood Walker aside.

Really enjoyed that, I know nowt about baseball and loved it
I watched that after Cat mentioned it before. It is good.
 

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