A comienzos de los años 60 Scotty Smalls, un alumno de quinto, se traslada a una nueva ciudad con sus padres. Sus compañeros le llaman memo por no saber lanzar una pelota de béisbol. Pero todo cambia cuando el líder de la pandilla del barrio le pide que juegue con ellos en el descampado. Es el comienzo de un verano mágico de béisbol, aventuras desenfrenadas, primeros besos y confrontaciones aterradoras con la espeluznante bestia y su dueño, quien vive tras una valla que colinda con el descampado. En poco tiempo, los nueve chicos acaban haciéndose inseparables, Scotty se mete en el equipo y su líder se convierte en la leyenda local.
Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) es un ambicioso abogado que participa con intensidad del mundo competitivo y despiadado en el que debe desenvolverse. Pero sus valores se tambalean por completo cuando un juez decide condenarle a realizar un trabajo de rehabilitación social. La tarea que se le encomienda, y de la que no puede escapar, es entrenar a un equipo infantil de hockey. Sin embargo, el abogado termina por encontrar en la condena un nuevo sentido a su vida.
Una abogada con aspecto de mojigata (Marcia Gay Harden) convence al ex jugador profesional Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton), famoso por su afición al alcohol y sus malos modos, para que entrene a los Bears, un equipo juvenil de béisbol formado por unos chicos especialmente ineptos. El reto consiste en motivar a doce inadaptados para que derroten al odiado equipo rival, los Yankees, y de paso, a su insoportable entrenador (Greg Kinnear). Remake del film homónimo protagonizado por Walter Matthau en 1976.
Tras conseguir llevar al equipo de los Ducks al campeonato local de hockey sobre hielo, el entrenador Gordon Bombay vuelve para ayudarlos a conseguir algo tan aparentemente imposible como ganar los Junio Goodwill Games en Los Ángeles, un campeonato internacional donde los jóvenes Ducks tendrán la responabilidad de representar a los Estados Unidos.
To climb the corporate ladder to success, a businessman agrees to coach his company's all-girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
Danny OShea siempre ha vivido a la sombra de su hermano, el gran jugador de fútbol americano Kevin O'Shea. Kevin siempre fue el más grande, más fuerte, más rápido y más popular. Después de una brillante carrera, Kevin vuelve con su familia a su pueblo natal, donde organiza una liga infantil de fútbol. Sin embargo, a pesar que su sobrina (la hija de Danny) es la mejor jugadora, no la selecciona para el equipo representante del pueblo. Cuando se entera de que su hija es rechazada, Danny reunirá a una cuadrilla de los más flojuchos y regordetes del lugar para enseñarle una lección a su hermano.
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 series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.
Six years after saying "I do," Olive and Clay call it quits. Although they split amicably, both want custody of their beloved dog Wesley and they end up in court. With everything at stake, can man's best friend find a way to reunite the couple?
After years of organizing fashion in the city, Lauren decides to move home. In exchange for her organizing services, mover Rob makes it his mission to help her see the beauty of Seattle.
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early '90s gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes and that they can go out winners. In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but sombre note.
Dying doctor Jonathan Lyle's last wish is granted, to be young again and play baseball, but only for five days.
Divorced father without custody Torben, a former pro soccer player, concentrates on his talented son David's juniors poorly performing team. When the coach suddenly accepts another position, Torben gets his change 'for the time being'. He becomes a substitute father for several of the boys. He's opposed by many parents, but finds love again with one player's single mother. Yet the greatest reward comes from David, in a twisted way.
In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class divisions, and reveals that despite the fragile volatility of human relationships, family is what holds us together and unites us all.
A hound chases a young rabbit, ultimately cornering him against a tree. But the dog doesn't want to eat the rabbit, just make friends. The bunny takes his new friend (who he names Sniffy) to where the rest of the rabbits are playing football and, after introductions, they join in. Soon a fox happens along.