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Safe at Home! (1962)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style:
uplifting, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
baseball, youth, sport team, sport, school, friendship, friends, family relations, parents and children, athlete and trainer, teenage life, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, americana, lifestyle, partners, underdog, against the odds, buddies, obsessive quest, hopes, athlete's life, rising to stardom, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york yankees, new york, florida
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about ambition, rivalry, sport, sport team, contests and competitions, underdog and hopes mostly in Sport, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Safe at Home!: Never Too Young to Dream (2001), The Bad News Bears (1976), Finding Buck McHenry (2000), Bleacher Bums (2001), The Sandlot 2 (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, sport, small town, coach, old man, janitor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Style:
inspirational, humorous, feel good, intense, talky ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
baseball, underdog, sport, youth, baseball coach, childhood, competition, coach, unlikely friendships, sport team, contests and competitions, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s, 80s, year 1976
Place:
california, new jersey, usa, san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, friends, gambling, follow your dream, against the odds, lifestyle, rivalry, buddies, couple relations, sport, athlete's life, ambition ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
sport, sport team, youth, friendship, baseball, vengeance, friends, teenage life, underdog, athlete and trainer, coming of age, ambition ...
Time:
year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
sport, human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, disney, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, contests and competitions ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After taking a job managing a little league team, a homeless man inspires the kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, uplifting, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
baseball, youth, athlete's life, sport, follow your dream, single parent, hopes, contests and competitions, rivalry, underdog, athlete and trainer, human spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check via an unreality check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, saga
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, teens, kids
Plot:
baseball, youth, sport, friendship, sport team, major league, friends, ambition, rivalry, partners, contests and competitions, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two little league teams take on their coaches' sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, baseball, young heroes, ambition, family relations, sport, rivalry, contests and competitions, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
14-year-old Watts Davies is estranged from his dad, a former International Karting Federation (IKF) champion. Watts's resolve to race in the upcoming IKF Regional Championships rekindles their relationship as they pursue the dream together.
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, teenage life, against the odds, human spirit, ambition, lifestyle, athlete's life, follow your dream, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, rivalry, tragic hero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
basketball, true love, friendship, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, hopes, underdog, follow your dream, buddies, ambition, human spirit, sport ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
school, teacher, rivalry, goofy hero, small town life, high school life, friends, youth, father son relationship, contests and competitions, rivals, high school teacher ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
athlete's life, human spirit, journalism, lifestyle, ambition, sport, odd couple, hopes, contests and competitions, buddies, athlete and trainer, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Style:
humorous, feel good, unusual plot structure, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ice hockey, sport, disney, cheerleading, high school, teenager, childhood, college, school, underdog, coming of age, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' ...
Style:
humorous, sweet, road movie, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
baseball, childhood, high school, youth, sport, underdog, redemption, disaster, dysfunctional family, twists and turns, life philosophy, stereotypes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
texas, austin texas, california, tokyo, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jace Newfield has a problem. Besides being blind and being the new kid at school, his problem is that the kids at his new school thinks he's a jerk. Jace has to find a way to be accepted into his new school. Joining the wrestling team just ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
blindness, high school, sport team, disability, disney, follow your dream, ambition, human spirit, teenage life, friendship, sport, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
utah, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Josh is off to his first year of college and buddy has stayed behind with joshs little sister andrea and the rest of the family. Adrea attempting to fit in with her jr. High classmates decides to join the baseball team and along the way discovers ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, light
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschoolers
Plot:
dog, golden retriever, baseball, youth, sport team, underdog, contests and competitions, disorder, family relations, sport, hopes, against the odds ...
Time:
2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
221
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his aunt, teenager Mario Vandetti makes fast friends with a group of neighborhood kids and encouraged by a caring priest they soon form a basketball team, becoming contenders in a city tournament.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, teenage life, against the odds, follow your dream, human spirit, ambition, friendship, rivalry, athlete's life, lifestyle, parents and children, athlete and trainer ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot:
friends, sport team, hotshot hero, sport, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
27%
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, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twins, basketball, high school, sport, disney, against the odds, ambition, contests and competitions, human spirit, siblings relations, family life, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A heart-warming comedy about the friendship between the new kid in town and a soccer-playing dog on the lam from the dog-catcher. It's up to these two underdogs to win the PeeWee Soccer League championship game.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
soccer, animals, dog, youth, football, underdog, lifestyle, rivalry, odd couple, hopes, ambition, pets ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eddie Ogden is his pa's pride and joy as well as the Groundhogs team's only asset as baseball talent. Then Eddie discovers a taste and talent for cuisine. Although his brothers Andy and Alex, and Pa as well as classmates enjoy his dishes, ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, scenic
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
youth, baseball, disney, ambition, cooking, family relations, rivalry, contests and competitions, buddies, parents and children, teenage life, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
soccer, sport, rivalry, family life, sport team, hidden identity, contests and competitions, underdog, disorder, ambition, hopes, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A local Pinewood Derby competition transforms an average group of dads into overzealous rivals desperate to build the winning car. As egos swell, the kids are lucky if they get to pick the paint color. While the dads are busy with outlandish ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
rivalry, ambition, disorder, optimism, athlete's life, contests and competitions, family life, parents and children, child as adult, sport team, underdog, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
miraculous event, college, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, against the odds, disney, sport team, rivalry, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Katelin Kingsford, an Olympic hopeful figure skater wants to train with a Russian figure skating coach. In order to go to go to the school that Natasha is at, Katelin gets a scholarship playing on the girls hockey team.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
ice hockey, skating, figure skating, sport, rivalry, talent, disney, follow your dream, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In this second heartwarming and hilarious sequel to the popular favorite, Air Bud masters two new starring roles: soccer (real football) player and fatherhood. Loaded with laughs and cool soccer action, Buddy teams up alongside U.S. women's ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, preschoolers
Plot:
dog, golden retriever, sport team, ambition, friendship, rivalry, family relations, pets, sport, contests and competitions, best friends, animal life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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