Med udgangspunkt i virkelige hændelser for ganske få år siden, er The Possession den skræmmende historie om, hvordan en familie må stå sammen for at overleve truslen fra en ufattelig ondskab. Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) og Stephanie Brenek (Kyra Sedgwick) er – til at begynde med – ikke specielt opmærksomme, da deres yngste datter, Em (Natasha Calis) i stigende grad knytter sig til en antik træboks, som hun har købt ved at garagesalg. Men i takt med, at Ems opførsel bliver mere og mere skræmmende, begynder Clyde og Stephanie at få mistanke om, at noget ondt er ved at tage magten over familien. Og da de begynder at undersøge sagen, finder de ud af, at den gamle boks i sin tid blev bygget for – til evig tid – at fastholde en Dibbuk, en ond dæmon fra helvedes forgård, der trænger ind i sit offers sjæl med en altfortærende ondskab, inden den ultimativt helt fortærer sit menneskelige offer.
Basketballtræneren Marcus (Woody Harrelson) er frustreret over, at hans karriere ikke er nået længere, end den er. Først havner han i slagsmål med cheftræneren og bliver suspenderet, senere drukner han sine sorger i flasken og får en dom for spritkørsel. Hans straf bliver 90 dages samfundstjeneste, mere specifikt skal han træne et hold af mentalt udfordrede spillere, der skal til De Paralympiske Lege. Først hader Marcus situationen, men stille og roligt varmer han op til de energiske spillere på sit nye hold.
Den tidligere all-star basketball-spiller forsøger nu at gøre et comeback ved at blive træner for et meget forskelligartet high-school basketballhold på sin gamle skole.
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral, but nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed...and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.
Charlie Fitzpatrick is the most successful high school basketball coach in Georgia history. While many of his players think of him as a father, his relationship with his own "bookworm" son, Evan, is strained. With the help of his wife, Laura and Evan's wife, Heather, Charlie determines the best way to connect and bond is to take his son and grandson, Markie, who has just announced he's dropping out of college to tour with his folk band, to a rustic mountain cabin for a weekend retreat. Only this cabin is the same site where he took his many winning teams to test their mettle over a grueling military-style obstacle course, the same one Evan, as a student never got the chance to complete. This is Charlie's idea of fun, Evan's idea of a nightmare, and Markie's idea of-well he's young and idealistic; he's just going with the flow. .
A mother's worst nightmare comes true when her teenage daughter goes missing.
Bilal Irving, a professional basketball player returns to his small, Northern Ontario town of Dumont. He re-connects with his former coach, and conflict ensues as they both struggle to put their egos and complicated pasts aside to mentor the town’s only basketball team.
Coach, mentor, social activist ...the life and legacy of Dean Smith, North Carolina's legendary basketball coach - who went to 11 Finals Fours and won two National Championships, with players like Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Vince Carter and Jerry Stackhouse - is remembered and celebrated by former players and colleagues.
This documentary profiles the life and career of Pat Summitt, the NCAA's winningest basketball coach, who resigned from her post at the University of Tennessee in 2012 due to early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
A candid conversation between two basketball icons that explores the concept of "Greatness" and what it takes to achieve it.
The 1989 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1988–89 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, and the conclusion of the 1989 NBA Playoffs. The series was a rematch of the previous year's championship round between the Eastern Conference playoff champion Detroit Pistons and the Western Conference playoff champion Los Angeles Lakers.
Civil Rights Movement activist, TSSAA Hall of Fame Basketball Coach, swim coach, teacher, musical director, father, grandfather, and friend to many, Coach Sylvester Ford Sr. was known by many as “Big Time.” The nickname was given to him as a kid for his height, but “Big Time” showed time and time again why his nickname was about way more than his looks– it’s also because of how he showed up big for his community. Big Time chronicles the life of legendary Memphis basketball coach, Sylvester Ford Sr., while inspiring us all to live “big time” lives along the way
In 2011, Providence College would hire Providence native Ed Cooley as Head Coach of the Friars' Men's Basketball team. In 2022, he would win the school their first Big East Regular Season Title in school history. In 2023, he would leave for their hated rival, Georgetown University. Why did he leave?
Born on Halloween, 1935, Dale Brown's fight for justice began the day his father walked out - two days before he was born.About how an overachiever from tiny Minot, North Dakota relentlessly fought his way to the top.
From Paseo to Pembroke is a Kansas City documentary retrospective on the golden age of high school basketball. From '88 to '98—from the Dotte all the way to Raytown. Told by the era's premier coaches, players and media personalities.
The heroines of the film are Soviet basketball players who take part in international competitions for the Hera Cup. Exciting basketball matches, the nobility of a Soviet athlete who saved the life of a Greek basketball player, the anxiety of first love-all these and other events make up the plot of the film.