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A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story (1999)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
All his life, teenager Daniel Huffman and his grandma have dreamed of Daniel playing college football. After Daniel is cut from his high school team, his grandmother's encouragement and coaching get him a second chance at that dream. He works hard and becomes so good his coach believes he has a shot at making a top-ranked college team. But now Daniel faces a heart-wrenching choice that could force him to forever give up his dream.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
american football, family relations, high school football, illness, mentor protege relationship, ambition, high school, youth, friends, family life, rivalry, sport team, lifestyle, transplant, hopes, athlete's life, power relations, biopic, teenager, coach, teenage boy, gift, small town, organ donation, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about hopes, youth, ambition, family relations, rivalry, power relations and athlete's life mostly in Drama, Sport and Biography genres. Some movies like A Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story: America Brown (2004), Something for Joey (1977), A Painted House (2003), Full Out (2015), When the Game Stands Tall (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, starting over, prodigy, haunted by the past, society, ambition, redemption, rivalry, youth, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, new york, usa
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100%
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, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
american football, youth, siblings, contests and competitions, unfulfillment, athlete's life, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, power relations, sport team, terminal illness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, family relations, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, farm, poverty, farmer, nature, survival, flood ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952
Place:
arkansas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the true life story of California gymnast Ariana Berlin. As she zoned in on her Olympic goals, 14 year old Ariana Berlin's life took a sharp turn when she was involved in a debilitating car accident. Gaining her confidence and movement ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, rough, intense
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
gymnastics, dancing, family relations, hopes, adaptation, comeback, rivalry, real life, strong female lead, women, student athlete, biopic ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style:
captivating, sincere, uplifting, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, football, athlete and trainer, ambition, small town, high school sports, youth, coach, high school football, sport team ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, oakland california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
basketball, youth, faith, sport team, power relations, contests and competitions, hopes, prodigy, tragic hero, lifestyle, rivalry, aging ...
Time:
90s, year 1959
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A teenage drifter finds an opportunity to turn his life around when he joins a high-school football program with a hard-nosed coach.
Style:
touching, feel good, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
american football, high school, small town, teenage life, against the odds, leadership, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, society, youth, hopes ...
Place:
alabama, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sad ...
Plot:
american football, car accident, coach, family in crisis, athlete's life, ambition, football, social relations, contests and competitions, lifestyle, american football player, christian ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twins, basketball, high school, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambition, family life, siblings relations, family relations, underdog, youth, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
Style:
feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, athlete and trainer, youth, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, human spirit ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, friendship, sport team, athlete's life, human spirit, hopes, society, lifestyle, family life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, historical drama ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
baseball, hopes, high school sports, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, one last chance, youth, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An inspirational true story about how a rural community rallied around a distraught family to search for their missing two year-old boy and through doing so changed the lives of many of those involved.
Style:
touching, sincere, uplifting, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
missing child, family in crisis, hopes, couple relations, social relations, couples, family relations, family problems, christian, missing person, gospel, real life ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
baseball, hopes, youth, athlete's life, follow your dream, looking for love, lifestyle, coming of age, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, major league ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, saga, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
23%
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Country: Canada
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Story:
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Style:
sincere, sentimental, feel good, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, nature, environmentalism, wilderness, human spirit, fighting the system, heroic mission, society, escapades, politics, obsessive quest, campaign ...
Time:
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Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
track and field, running, bittersweet, underdog, athlete and trainer, hopes, youth, coming of age, ambition, athlete's life, human nature, wartime life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
23%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
american football, sport team, human spirit, ambition, athlete's life, friendship, life is a bitch, buddies, lifestyle, football, cancer, friendship between men ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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200
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
uplifting, feel good, touching, sincere, light ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, serious, realistic, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
rivalry, athlete's life, one more chance, starting over, ambition, boxing, lifestyle, hopes, contests and competitions, follow your dream, power relations, martial arts ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1957, year 1999, 90s ...
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, indianapolis indiana, appalachia ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, touching, controversial, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, captivating, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
baseball, hopes, rivalry, ambition, against the odds, athlete's life, society, youth, sport team, contests and competitions, asian, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, taiwan, china, asia
Similarity:
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556
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, society, youth, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, friends, hopes, orphan, parents and children ...
Time:
50s
Similarity:
21%
74K
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, emotional, uplifting, feel good, tear jerker ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
underdog, american football, college, football, american football player, biopic, aspiration, college football, learning disability, college life, motivation, campus ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
boston, indiana, usa, new jersey, texas
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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