Movies like Sticks & Stones
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Sticks & Stones (1996)
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
For three high school friends, growing up takes a dangerous turn when the local bully targets them with his aggression. With no one to turn to but each other, they muster the courage to take a shot at settling the score.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family relations, bully, bullying, outcast, humiliation, friends, misfit, family life, ambition, sport team, mischievous children, coming of age, disorder, hopes, athlete's life, power relations, teenager, school, police officer, teacher, police, friendship, boy, grownups ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Most similar movies to Sticks & Stones
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about hopes, ambition, sport, youth, athlete's life, family relations and sport team mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Sticks & Stones: The Kid (1997), Finding Buck McHenry (2000), From the Rough (2013), Something for Joey (1977), The Slaughter Rule (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A 13 year old talented athlete struggles to come to terms with the traumas of life as she prepares for a very important athletics event.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school sports, power relations, friends, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, teenage life, school, hopes, athlete's life, single parent, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jimmy Albright is a young athlete with a passion for boxing. His mentor, Harry Sloan, an aging trainer and former boxer, sees Jimmy's potential, not only as a boxer but as a young man. With Harry's guidance, Jimmy trains and fights his way ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
boxing, youth, family relations, human spirit, athlete's life, lifestyle, hopes, rise to the top, underdog, aging, athlete and trainer, supportive spouse ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, sport team, sport, human spirit, athlete's life, society, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young girl (Jade Pettyjohn) struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
youth, sport, gymnastics, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, hopes, best friends, teachers and students, school, child, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot:
against the odds, golf, sport, athlete's life, human spirit, once in a lifetime opportunity, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, social misfits, hopes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is based on the true story about the relationship between Penn State football player John Cappelletti and his younger brother Joey, who has leukemia. John and Joey's bond is a strong one. Joey hangs out with John in the Penn State locker ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
american football, youth, contests and competitions, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, sport, athlete's life, hopes, sport team, family relations, power relations, terminal illness ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
american football, sport, small town, teenage life, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, sport team, hopes, youth, love and romance, human nature ...
Place:
usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Billy returns from reform school he has to attend a different high school at the other side of town. He tries to start with a clean slate but his old rival doesn't make it easy on him and his buddy Louie tries to make him go astray again. ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Audience:
teens
Plot:
running, school, runner, high school, family relations, teenage boy, brother, teenage life, siblings relations, contests and competitions, lifestyle, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coast country club.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, scenic, realistic
Plot:
golf, youth, ambition, prodigy, athlete's life, lifestyle, human spirit, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, teachers and students, social differences, single parent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen, who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
soccer, sport, female athlete, human spirit, family problems, rivalry, follow your dream, death in the family, athlete's life, family in crisis, cheerleader, ambition ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
female boxer, rivalry, family relations, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, parents and children, teenage life, lifestyle, family life, sport, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early 90's, gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach as the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, sport, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, hopes, athlete's life, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful coach. Inspired by Julie, Steve resumes training. While ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gymnastics, teenager, gymnast, family relations, sport, coming of age, love and romance, hopes, youth, contests and competitions, athlete's life, ambition ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage love, high school life, school, bullying, family relations, friendship, lifestyle, buddies, friends, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Reggie White stars as Reggie Knox, a pro football player who retires, frustrated because he hasn't won a championship. Knox begins coaching a Portland, Ore., high school football program, where he befriends a troubled student. Reggie fights ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
american football, black man, family relations, gang, school, high school, power relations, religions or cults, social relations, society, ambition, sport ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Chuck Murdock, a 12-year-old boy from Montana and son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip. He protests the existence of nuclear weapons by refusing to play baseball, which results in the ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, melancholic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
friendship, transformation, nuclear war, kids and family, sport, anti war, politics, athlete's life, sport team, hopes, ambition, fighting the system ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, montana, boston, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Style:
sentimental, uplifting, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
american football, sport, sport team, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, friendship, buddies, life is a bitch, lifestyle, friendship between men, cancer ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, inspirational
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
basketball, sport, small town, hopes, ambition, prodigy, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, youth, against the odds, sport team ...
Time:
60s
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a High School journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the teams' main "Star" Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, cheerleader, friendship, basketball, sport, athlete's life, teenage life, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, baseball, coming of age, graduation, teen angst, performer's life, friends, couples, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, moral dilemma ...
Time:
70s
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, melancholic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, college, coach, young lovers, ambition, follow your dream, sport, youth, coming of age, athlete and trainer, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a traveling circus. Also features Mickey Rooney and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
preschoolers, pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
circus, youth, baseball, retirement home, adoption, foster parent, mysterious character, hopes, young heroes, orphan, chase, starting over ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, serious, realistic, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
blindness, american football, disability, sport, high school football, high school, human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, self pity, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
soccer, bully, working class, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, teenage life, rivalry, youth, contests and competitions, society, sport ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
manchester, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in an interschool bowling rivalry.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
bowling, youth, ambition, friendship, disney, sport team, rivalry, misfit, unlikely partners, contests and competitions, social differences, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boy, teenage life, teenage boy, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, single parent, youth, therapist, mother son relationship, boyhood, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
ice hockey, friends, social relations, family relations, power relations, gender bending, small town, small town life, teenage life, fall in love, youth, sport ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, coming of age, dedicated educator, boarding school life, youth, ethics, boarding school, hardcase students, friendship, cheating, mentor, school ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, 2000s
Place:
washington d.c., new jersey, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Alex believed in his baseball hero Billy Young. When Billy's performance struggled, Alex's friends began to doubt Alex; and Billy began to doubt himself. Alex wants to prove to his friends, to Billy, and to himself that believing in ...
Style:
exciting, uplifting, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
baseball, disney, power relations, sport team, family relations, family life, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, hopes, underdog, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sport, soccer, follow your dream, human spirit, athlete's life, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, friendship, sport team, rivalry ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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