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From the Rough (2013)
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From the Rough (2013)
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: uplifting, captivating, touching, feel good, serious, sincere, realistic
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: against the odds, golf, sport, human spirit, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, once in a lifetime opportunity, lifestyle, ambition, social misfits, hopes, teacher, student athlete, sport team, friends, misfit, society, strong female presence, underdog, gain trust, power relations, teenager, university, happy ending ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, usa

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Most similar movies to From the Rough

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about sport, ambition, hopes, athlete and trainer, rivalry, human spirit and contests and competitions mostly in Drama, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like From the Rough: A Shot at Glory (2000), The Junction Boys (2002), Seven Days in Utopia (2011), Believe in Me (2006), The Final Season (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
A Shot at Glory (2000)
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
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100%
The Junction Boys (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the ...
Style: tense, serious, sincere, captivating, realistic
Plot: american football, sport, discrimination, contests and competitions, hopes, against the odds, teachers and students, tough heroes, human spirit, college, underdog, university ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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: sincere, uplifting, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: golf, wise man, christian, human spirit, teaching the ways of the world, ambition, introspection, sport, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Believe in Me (2006)
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 ⇓
44%
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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, 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 ⇓
43%
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: athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, sport team, contests and competitions, sport, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, underdog, hopes, basketball, vulgarity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Madison (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold Cup hydroplane boat race improbably comes to his small town of Madison, Indiana. ...
Style: serious, feel good, realistic, melancholic
Audience: kids
Plot: ship, athlete's life, human spirit, against the odds, follow your dream, unemployment, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, hopes, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Crooked Arrows (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Style: uplifting, exciting, feel good, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: native american, lacrosse, sport, high school, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, social relations, against the odds, preparatory school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Fast Girls (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Style: uplifting, feel good, touching, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: running, sport, follow your dream, contests and competitions, sport team, society, lifestyle, ambition, friendship, athlete's life, ego clash, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.3
 790
Undefeated (2003)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lex 'El Animal' Vargas is a promising Portorican boxer in Queens, but lacks ambition to aim for the big career. That changes after his brother Paulie is accidentally shot dead by a teenager in an amateur hold-up on their late dad's ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: sport, athlete's life, human spirit, lifestyle, social differences, against the odds, tough heroes, rise to the top, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, follow your dream, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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, 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 ⇓
38%
Hometown Legend (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 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: serious, realistic, feel good, touching, sincere
Plot: american football, high school, small town, human spirit, athlete's life, leadership, teenage life, against the odds, lifestyle, sport, society, rivalry ...
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Talent for the Game (1991)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Major League Baseball scout must find promising young player to save his job and his team.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good
Plot: baseball, scout, power relations, sport team, major league, countryside, relationship vs career, against the odds, americana, underdog, sport, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: idaho, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 188
The Kid (1997)
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 ⇓
37%
The Mighty Macs (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- and the school itself is in danger of being sold -- Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, emotional, sincere, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: basketball, college, mother superior, catholic school, sport, human spirit, against the odds, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, ambition, hopes, catholic ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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One on One (1977)
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 ⇓
35%
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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, teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, sport, athlete and trainer, youth, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Soul of the Game (1996)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: baseball, african american, blaxploitation, racial issues, racism, friendship, interracial relations, historical figure, major league, sport team, friends, injustice ...
Place: usa, new york, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 6.6
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Brian's Song (2001)
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 ⇓
32%
 5.4
 249
The Opponent (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Patty Sullivan (Erica Eleniak) is a battered woman who decides to take charge of her life by taking boxing lessons to better protect herself when her boyfriend becomes violent. Patty soon learns she has some talent for boxing and sets her sights on ...
Style: serious, rough, sincere, feminist film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: boxing, female boxer, against the odds, ambition, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, lifestyle, rise to the top, sport, rivalry, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.1
 885
Price of Glory (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, tense
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, tough heroes, ego clash, relationship vs career, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.2
 418
True Blue (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: oxford, university, power relations, sport team, hopes, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, sport, underdog, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.6
 379
Streetballers (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Defining street basketball as America's new favorite pastime, it is a story driven by passion, faith, and achieving goals. A story capturing the poetic nature of street basketball, highlighting the struggles endured on and off the court by the ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, lifestyle, ambition, family problems, hopes, contests and competitions, society, life is a bitch, rivalry, athlete's life, sport, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Believe (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.
Style: realistic, uplifting, captivating, inspirational, serious ...
Plot: sport, ambition, hopes, human spirit, follow your dream, rivalry, contests and competitions, sport team, orphan, athlete and trainer, coming of age, football player ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Gentleman's Game (2002)
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 ⇓
29%
Hurricane Season (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually ...
Style: touching, emotional, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, sport team, rivalry, high school, basketball coach, human spirit, athlete and trainer, starting over, contests and competitions, cheerleader, society, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Hoosiers (1986)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
Style: inspirational, realistic, emotional, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: basketball, high school, small town, sport, underdog, high school basketball, alcoholic, father son relationship, championship, basketball coach, athlete and trainer, redemption ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 80s
Place: indiana, usa, california, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Carman: The Champion (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Former champion boxer Orlando Leone (Carmen) is "The Preacher" at an inner-city youth center. Wanting to give something back to the community, he bought a large building for a church youth center. But the cash ran out before he could ...
Style: serious, realistic, christian film, sincere
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, christian, ambition, human spirit, rivalry, athlete's life, tough heroes, against the odds, lifestyle, contests and competitions, follow your dream, relationship vs career ...
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.2
 29
Matchups (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching
Plot: blindness, against the odds, prodigy, disability, human spirit, ambition, follow your dream, dedicated educator, sport, life is a bitch, athlete's life, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
We Are Marshall (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Style: emotional, sentimental, inspirational, touching, compassionate ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: sport, football, college, american football, air disaster, coach, football team, survivor, university, friendship, small town, teacher ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey, california, west virginia, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%