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The Big Green (1995)
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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 they work overtime, the pair help kids build their self-esteem and also get involved in solving family squabbles.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, inspirational, sentimental, light, melancholic, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
soccer, school, athlete and trainer, sport, underdog, family, teachers and students, against the odds, high school life, small town life, youth, athlete's life, friendship, contests and competitions, family life, human spirit, follow your dream, rivalry, small town, immigrants, heroes, friends, misfit, self discovery, cliche ...
Place:
texas, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and realistic films with plots about ambition, underdog, family, contests and competitions, sport, rivalry and athlete and trainer mostly in Family, Sport and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Big Green: D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999), Rookie of the Year (1993), The Mighty Ducks (1992), Necessary Roughness (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
ice hockey, sport team, athlete and trainer, sport, underdog, family, competition, friendship, hockey, friends, power relations, partners ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, iceland, usa, europe, new jersey ...
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100%
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:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
dog, soccer, odd couple, lifestyle, ambition, family life, adoption, working class, reincarnation, parents and children, athlete and trainer, against the odds ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, exciting, inspirational, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, sport team, sport, contests and competitions, underdog, rivalry, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, major league ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, exciting, inspirational, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
hockey, sport team, athlete and trainer, self discovery, ice hockey, happy ending, sport, contests and competitions, against the odds, underdog, ambition, youth ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s, 80s
Place:
minnesota, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Style:
feel good, humorous, exciting, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
underdog, american football, sport team, sport, college, rivalry, hopes, human spirit, against the odds, lifestyle, youth, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, united states, ireland, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, realistic, semi serious, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, against the odds, human spirit, athlete's life, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, sport, rivalry, contests and competitions, youth ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
humorous, feel good, touching, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
college, follow your dream, basketball, sport, against the odds, human spirit, lifestyle, family, youth, ambition, prodigy, teenage life ...
Time:
contemporary, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
sport team, friendship, vengeance, underdog, ambition, sport, friends, rivalry, buddies, teenage life, athlete and trainer, partners ...
Time:
contemporary, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organisation that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, sport team, sport, family, ambition, young heroes, youth, contests and competitions, prodigy, lifestyle, athlete and trainer, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minnesota, usa, new york yankees, boston, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, basketball movie
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, follow your dream, buddies, sport, contests and competitions, athlete's life, ambition, underdog, lifestyle, sport team, gambling, against the odds ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
children, human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, follow your dream, contests and competitions, rivalry, family, hopes, disorder, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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:
touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
figure skating, ice hockey, rivalry, skating, teenage life, follow your dream, athlete's life, ambition, youth, lifestyle, sport, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
sport team, baseball, youth, sport, friendship, hopes, adventure, buddies, athlete's life, partners, lifestyle, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
185
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, follow your dream, against the odds, human spirit, friendship, ambition, teenage life, rivalry, athlete's life, dedicated educator, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, realistic, semi serious, feel good, nostalgic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
baseball, sport team, little league, sport, underdog, family, high school, redemption, estrangement, family relations, relationship vs career, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
texas, houston texas, california, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, basketball movie ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
sport team, sport, family, adventure, culture clash, scout, fish out of water, athlete and trainer, misfit, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
8K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, offbeat, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
baseball, chimpanzee, sport, against the odds, friendship, partners, athlete's life, hopes, lifestyle, kidnapping, rivalry, animal life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, funny, buddy movie ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
sport team, mule, sport, family, farce, soccer, rivalry, athlete and trainer, against the odds, lifestyle, ambition, friends ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa, former yugoslavia, yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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:
touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental, non-linear ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coach, little league, against the odds, friendship, ambition, follow your dream, sport team, lifestyle, sport, society, athlete's life, hopes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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, sincere, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
ice hockey, rivalry, sport team, sport, underdog, family, school, coming of age, social relations, academy, boarding school, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
usa, minnesota, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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:
humorous, feel good, exciting, touching, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
underdog, baseball, sport team, coach, sport, baseball movie, family, friendship, human spirit, contests and competitions, youth, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1976, 80s, 1930s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, los angeles, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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, feel good, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
baseball, sport team, sport, culture clash, lifestyle, contests and competitions, fish out of water, friendship, athlete and trainer, cons and scams, friends, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. ack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, light, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
chimpanzee, hockey, against the odds, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, sport, animal life, contests and competitions, youth, buddies, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 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:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
twins, high school, contests and competitions, ambition, against the odds, human spirit, sport, underdog, lifestyle, rivalry, family relations, family life ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 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, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
school, goofy hero, rivalry, small town life, teacher, friends, father son relationship, teachers and students, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children, high school life, youth ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
athlete's life, ambition, human spirit, athlete and trainer, battle of the sexes, youth, sport, rivalry, underdog, gender, american football, hopes ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
9K
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:
feel good, inspirational, light, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, sport, hopes, follow your dream, against the odds, friendship, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, female protagonist, feminism, sport team ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
ambition, rivalry, disorder, contests and competitions, family, athlete's life, child as adult, family life, parents and children, optimism, scout, underdog ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, sport, parents and children, hopes, ambition, wish come true, rivalry, underdog, angel, sport team, coach, magic ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Josh and Buddy move from basketball to American football in this first of several sequels to the original Air Bud.
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, preschoolers ...
Plot:
dog, family relations, sport team, sport, family, school, friends, animal life, teenage life, friendship, best friends, pets ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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