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Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
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Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
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, black comedy, semi serious
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: basketball, true love, friendship, gambling, human spirit, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, lifestyle, underdog, against the odds, buddies, hopes, athlete's life, young lovers, youth, african american, childhood, meme, friends, love and romance, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: contemporary
Keyword: sport, basketball movie, gangsters, arabic

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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 underdog, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, power relations, athlete and trainer and hopes mostly in Sport, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Like Mike 2: Streetball: Fast Break (1979), Slam Dunk Ernest (1995), The Minis (2007), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), Full-Court Miracle (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fast Break (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, student athlete, transsexual, teenager, culture clash, college, stoner, sport team, disorder, power relations, youth, ambition ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: nevada, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, teens, family outing, date night
Plot: basketball, humour, satire, weirdo, partner, friends, disorder, power relations, sport team, contests and competitions, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Minis (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot: basketball, friends, sport team, athlete and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame ...
Style: spectacular, epic, hilarious, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, competition, childhood, olympics, underdog, youth, friendship, teenager, winter, athlete and trainer, child ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: minnesota, los angeles, iceland, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Full-Court Miracle (2003)
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: basketball, miraculous event, college, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, against the odds, sport team, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
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: epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, competition, high school, olympics, childhood, college, school, coming of age, underdog, winter, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
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: family comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, childhood, high school, youth, redemption, underdog, sport team, friends, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, against the odds ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Disney's Air Bud (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The ...
Style: inspirational, light, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, golden retriever, basketball, animal, pets, friendship, happy ending, unlikely friendships, childhood, small town, human spirit, young heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington state, seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: baseball, underdog, major league, racing, sport competition, contest, competition, tournament, sport team, rivalry, training, career ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: minnesota, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Longshots (2008)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: american football, human spirit, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, battle of the sexes, football, rivalry, youth, underdog, gender, black, hip hop ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wild Soccer Bunch 4 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Germany, Bahamas
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After his victory over the team "The horrific Beasts," "The Beast Football Club" are in top form and mature in every game. But they need one more win to get the "Pott", the highest award of football freestyle. And to do ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: sport team, underdog, prison, ambition, unemployment, survival, prison life, friends, contests and competitions, victory, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Eddie (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations ...
Style: inspirational, light, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: basketball, female protagonist, basketball coach, life philosophy, follow your dream, hopes, friendship, ambition, rivalry, against the odds, lifestyle, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!
Style: realistic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, sport team, social relations, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, rivalry, underdog, hopes, orphan, against the odds, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 22K
Like Mike (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, touching, black comedy ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: basketball, youth, sport team, teenage life, wish come true, teenager, orphanage, rising to stardom, prodigy, hopes, superhuman powers, ambition ...
Place: los angeles, england, europe, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem ...
Style: sex comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, profanity, rivalry, ice skater, olympics, winter olympics, sport team, violent content, siblings relations, against the odds, nothing to lose ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.6
 507
Matilda (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous
Plot: boxing, boxer, kangaroo, gangster, human spirit, hopes, ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, los angeles, manhattan new york city, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.6
 229
Boys Club (2001)
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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, ambition, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, against the odds, rivalry, athlete's life, family life, athlete and trainer, lifestyle ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
44%
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 5.1
 14K
Rebound (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Style: entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, happy ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, college, sport team, youth, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, against the odds, prodigy, ambition, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 2.2
 9K
Crossover (2006)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The clock strikes midnight, money changes hands, the crowd is on their feet, and the court is alive with fast-paced razzle-dazzle basketball. These players don't play for a school or a pro team. They play for the street and it's ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: basketball, against the odds, athlete's life, human spirit, sport team, friendship, contests and competitions, street gang, hopes, lifestyle, buddies, underdog ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
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, realistic, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.3
 480
Bleacher Bums (2001)
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: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: baseball, friends, gambling, lifestyle, against the odds, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, athlete's life, couple relations, ambition, hopes ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
 3.8
 370
Home Team (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Henry Butler (Steve Guttenberg) is a professional athlete with a little Pete Rose in him. His athletic interests go beyond the playing field and into the gambling dens. Convicted for his addiction, the soccer player is assigned to community service ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot: soccer, football, american football, youth, contests and competitions, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, gambling ...
Time: 90s
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
37%
 3.9
 493
Shred (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SHRED is a motion picture that tells the story of two washed up pro snowboarders from the 90s named Max (played by Dave England) and Eddie (played by Renee Renee) who attempt to cash in on the fantastic growth of the sport by starting their own ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, uninhibited rivalry, underdog, hopes, athlete's life, human spirit ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 360
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 ⇓
37%
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a ...
Style: humorous, family comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, childhood, youth, culture clash, sport team, coach, power relations, friends, misfit, athlete's life, contests and competitions, friendship ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Double Teamed (2002)
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, against the odds, contests and competitions, ambition, human spirit, siblings relations, family life, family relations, lifestyle, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Sports Pages (2001)
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, contests and competitions, nothing goes right, hopes, athlete and trainer, farce, buddies, odd couple, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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