Movies like A Mile in His Shoes

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A Mile in His Shoes (2011)
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A Mile in His Shoes (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the book “The Legend of Mickey Tussler”, this film follows the story of eighteen-year-old Mickey Tussler, who lives on a farm with his father and mother and who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. But he can throw apples at an amazing speed. When a chance meeting occurs with the baseball manager of the semi-pro team the River Rats, from Clayton, Ohio, Mickey gets a chance to pitch for the team and to prove to his father he can do more than live hidden away on the family farm, taking care of his pig Oscar (http://www.christianfilmdatabase.com/).
Style: christian film, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, asperger's syndrome, autism, baseball player, baseball team, coach, professional athlete, sport team, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, rivalry, ambition, professional rivalry, faith, christian, disability, religious, baseball glove, baseball movie
Keyword: sport

Most similar movies to A Mile in His Shoes

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, feel good and touching films with plots about ambition, sport team, rivalry, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, baseball and hopes mostly in Sport, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like A Mile in His Shoes: The Rookie (2002), MaveriX (2022), Going for Gold (2018), One Hit from Home (2012), Baseball Girl (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Rookie (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, sentimental, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: baseball, underdog, father son relationship, high school, human spirit, teacher, rags to riches, following a dream, family relations, baseball coach, against the odds, grownups ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 90s, 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, orlando florida
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100%
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MaveriX (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Six young motocross riders come together to form a team, to make the national titles, or crash out trying. But the biggest win of all might be the friends they make for life.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: motocross, motorcycle, sport team, motorcyclist, motorcycle race, ambitious, competitor, friends, motorcycle racing, rivalry, friendship, racecar driver ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Going for Gold (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seventeen year old, Emma joins a high school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer.
Style: captivating, feel good, light, sincere
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: cheerleading, gymnastics, cheerleader, female protagonist, champion, father, father daughter relationship, daughter, friendship, rivalry, gymnast, believe in yourself ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
One Hit from Home (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Story: After suffering a career ending knee injury, pro-baseball superstar Jimmy Easton (Dave Stone) returns to a place he has not been in a very long time....home. Here, Jimmy confronts dark memories from a tragic past as he tries to make peace with a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, christian film, uplifting
Audience: family friendly
Plot: baseball, college, ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, contests and competitions, youth, hopes, athlete's life, haunted by the past, sport team, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 304
Baseball Girl (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A girl baseball player who is about to graduate from high school will try to enter the professional baseball world forbidden to women.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: baseball, high school sports, social problems, sport team, female protagonist, ambitious woman, baseball player, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, coping, direction and purpose, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Tiger Town (1983)
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: semi serious, realistic, exciting, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: baseball, family relations, power relations, sport team, family life, hopes, underdog, athlete and trainer, ambition, athlete's life, aging, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
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, feel good, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: coach, friendship, ambition, follow your dream, against the odds, sport team, human spirit, society, lifestyle, athlete's life, hopes, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
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: uplifting, captivating, exciting, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, coach, ambition, small town, high school football, youth, football, sport team, christian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: baseball, juvenile delinquent, athlete and trainer, teamwork, aspiration, high school life, social problems, contests and competitions, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, direction and purpose, professional sports ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Boy Hood (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: China
TV show
Story: The story revolves around three students, Wu Tong (Karry Wang), Ban Xiao Song (Roy Wang), and Yin Ke (Jackson Yee), their lives at home and at school, and their shared interest of baseball.
Style: captivating, semi serious, feel good, entertaining
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, competition, friendship, sport team, baseball player, baseball coach, baseball team, teenager, athlete's life, ambition, teenage life, children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Swimming for Gold (2020)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young elite swimmer Claire is sent to Australia to coach a boys swimming team, where she must overcome an old rival and a secret fear to save the swimming camp from closing.
Style: light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: swimming, competition, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, coach, teenage angst, athlete's life, coping, sport team, world championship wrestling, direction and purpose ...
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Final Season (2007)
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, sincere, touching, sentimental, historical drama ...
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, coach, sport team, small town, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, human spirit, athlete's life, youth, contests and competitions, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
City Without Baseball (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The actual members of the Hong Kong Baseball Team all prove themselves to be natural actors by playing themselves in this fictional youth drama set in 2004. In a city where baseball culture is non-existent, these baseball players are a minority by ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, witty, intellectual
Plot: baseball, male pubic hair, gay interest, teamwork, lifestyle, sport team, lgbt, gay, passion, rivalry, baseball player, down on your luck ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Seven Days in Utopia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Talent can only get you so far. For golfer Luke Chisholm, that turns out to be Utopia, Texas -- where he's left stranded after blowing his pro debut.
Style: uplifting, sincere, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: golf, wise man, christian, human spirit, teaching the ways of the world, ambition, introspection, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, athlete's life, hopes, small town ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Perfect Game (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA, Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: baseball, youth, against the odds, ambition, rise to the top, coming of age, young heroes, contests and competitions, underdog, hopes, rivalry, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1957
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Code Breakers (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1951, a cheating scandal rocks West Point academy, as 83 cadets -- including the son of the school's football coach (Glenn) -- are implicated and ultimately dismissed.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: american football, scandal, coach, fraud, military academy, athlete and trainer, problem, academy, sport team, football player, cheating, honor ...
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007)
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, kids, teens
Plot: baseball, youth, friendship, sport team, partner, friends, buddies, hopes, athlete and trainer, underdog, ambition, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
We Will Be the World Champions (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, semi autobiographical
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, ambition, sport team, athlete's life, historical figure, basketball team, champion, world championship wrestling, athlete and trainer, historical character, winner, basketball player ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Home Run (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
Style: realistic, uplifting, emotional, christian film, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: baseball, homecoming, addiction, christian, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, starting over, athlete's life, hopes, redemption, support group, sport team ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Winning Season (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: THE WINNING SEASON tells the story of a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the film, 12 year-old baseball fanatic Joe Soshack finds a mint condition Honus Wagner baseball ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: time travel, follow your dream, baseball, family life, changing the past or future, hopes, boy, youth, friends, private vs public, power relations, athlete's life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 1K
Underdogs (2013)
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, ambition, human spirit, athlete and trainer, rivalry, youth, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Safe at Home! (1962)
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, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, youth, new york yankees, coach, sport team, partner, parents and children, against the odds, school, teenage life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Never Too Young to Dream (2001)
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, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: football, school, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, rivalry, small town, coach, soccer, janitor, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
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 6K
Overcomer (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After reluctantly agreeing to coach cross-country, high school basketball Coach John Harrison helps the least likely runner attempt the impossible in the biggest race of the year.
Style: motivational, christian film, sincere, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: running, asthma, asthmatic, christian, coach, faith, christianity, mentor, escapades, ambition, life is a bitch, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 632
Clubhouse (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: For the first time, Pete Young takes a risk - perhaps the only risk of his young life - when he applies for and lands his dream job as a batboy for the New York Empires. The problem is that his single mother, Lynne has no idea what he's up to. ...
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, captivating
Audience: teen drama
Plot: baseball, young heroes, family relations, ambition, against the odds, wish come true, teenage life, sport team, youth, rebelliousness, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 11K
Forever Strong (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick ...
Style: realistic, serious, inspirational, motivational, disturbing ...
Audience: manly, family outing
Plot: rugby, coach, dedicated educator, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, father son relationship, human spirit, redemption, ambition, starting over, teenage life, motivation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.2
 1K
As One (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team since the division of the Korean peninsula. The unified team won the group competition event, beating ...
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: friendship, ping pong, inter-korean relations, sport team, athlete's life, table tennis, direction and purpose, athlete and trainer, professional rivalry, rivalry, competitor, ambitious woman ...
Place: korea, north korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Season on the Brink (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: basketball, rivalry, athlete's life, sport team, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, hopes, athlete, power relations, college ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Investigator (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A veteran police detective becomes a criminal justice teacher and baseball coach at a local high school, leading him to the most important investigation of his life. Inspired by true events.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, christian film, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: high school, self discovery, career change, investigation, law enforcement, youth, social relations, teachers and students, teacher, faith, christian, baseball ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Casa Vita (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A baseball player finds unexpected happiness with a woman who works in his favorite restaurant.
Style: disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating
Plot: baseball, couple relations, baseball player, male female relationship, relationships, restaurant owner, father daughter relationship, romantic relationship, love affair, ambition, love and romance, restaurant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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