Law Library Movies

	Against the Ropes (2004) Rated:   Stars: **1/2 Format: DVD    110 min.   Plot: A female boxing promoter endures and succeeds in the male-dominated sport. Cast: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Tony Shaloub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington. Directed by Charles S. Dutton. Categories: Drama  Sports  Women
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	Ali (2001) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    157 min.   Plot: A biography of boxing legend Muhammed Ali, from his early days as Cassius Clay to his rise to heavyweight champion. Cast: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson. Directed by Michael Mann. Categories: Biography  Drama  Sports
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	Bad News Bears, The (1976) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    101 min.   Plot: A grumbling, alcoholic former pitcher gets roped into coaching a team of Little League misfits. Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Ben Piazza, Vic Morrow, Erin Blunt, Jackie Earle Haley, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Joyce Van Patten, Jaime Escobedo, Scott Firestone, George Gonzales, Alfred Lutter III, Brett Marx, David Pollock. Directed by Michael Ritchie. Categories: Children  Gender  Sports
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	Better Off Dead (1985) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    97 min.   Plot: A teenager is dumped by his girlfriend while dealing with family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier. Cast: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby. Directed by Savage Steve Holland. Categories: Comedy  Sports  Romance
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	Big Lebowski, The (1998) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    98 min.   Plot: An aging hippie, mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, embarks on a quest of restitution for his soiled oriental rug, enlisting his bowling buddies to help. Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro. Directed by Joel Coen. Categories: Comedy  Property  Sports
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	Black Sunday (1977) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    143 min.   Plot: A deranged war veteran plots to kill thousands of Americans at the Superbowl in Miami by destroying the Goodyear blimp. Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Bekim Fehmiu. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Categories: Action  Criminal Law  Sports
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	Breaking Away (1979) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    100 min.   Plot: Four friends challenge the local college boys in the annual bike race in an attempt to separate themselves from their small town reputation. Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley. Directed by Peter Yates. Categories: Sports  Comedy
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	Chariots of Fire (1981) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  123 min.   Plot: Two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics; one is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, John Gielgud. Directed by Hugh Hudson. Categories: Drama  Religion  Sports
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	Color of Money, The (1986) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    118 min.   Plot: A former pool player returns to the game and takes on a young protege. Cast: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Categories: Sports  Conflict  Drama
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	Eight Men Out (1988) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    120 min.   Plot: A baseball drama about the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, when members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to tamper with the World Series. Cast: Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn, Michael Lerner, Clifton James, Studs Terkel. Directed by John Sayles. Categories: Sports  Drama  Fraud
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	Girl Fight (2000) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    111 min.   Plot: A teenager on the verge of being kicked out of school begins training as a boxer and discovers her true talent. Cast: Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Santiago Douglas. Directed by Patrick Cady. Categories: Women  Drama  Sports
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	Glory Road (2006) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    118 min.   Plot: In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship. Cast: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight. Directed by James Gartner. Categories: Sports  Education  Racism
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	Hoop Dreams (1994) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    171 min.   Plot: The lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional. Cast: Arthur Agee, William Gates. Directed by Steve James. Categories: Documentary  Sports
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	Hoosiers (1986) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    115 min.   Plot: A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship. Cast: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper. Directed by David Anspaugh. Categories: Sports  Education  Drama
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	Hurricane, The (1999) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    144 min.   Plot: A Brooklyn-born teenager and his Canadian guardians spur an investigation leading to the release of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder decades earlier. Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Unger, Liev Schreiber. Directed by Norman Jewison. Categories: Biography  Sports  Drama
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	Jerry Maguire (1996) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    138 min.   Plot: When a sports agent has a moral ephiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent for the only athlete who stays with him. Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renee Zellweger. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Categories: Sports  Entertainment  Comedy
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	Karate Kid, The (1984) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    127 min.   Plot: A handyman and martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting. Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue. Directed by John G. Avildsen. Categories: Children  Sports  Drama
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	Leatherheads (2008) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    114 min.   Plot: A charming football hero is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums; when the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, he must convince a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. Cast: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce. Directed by George Clooney. Categories: Sports  Entertainment  Comedy
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	Longest Yard, The (2005) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    113 min.   Plot: Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards. Cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner, Burt Reynolds. Directed by Robert Aldrich. Categories: Law Enforcement  Sports  Comedy
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	Match Point (2005) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    124 min.   Plot: At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a woman who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. Cast: Brian Cox, Matthew Goode, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer. Directed by Woody Allen. Categories: Romance  Sports
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	Million Dollar Baby (2004) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  132 min.   Plot: A determined young woman wins over a hardened trainer in order to establish herself as a boxer. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Categories: Sports  Medical  Women
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	Night and the City (1992) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: VHS    103 min.   Plot: A cheating and imcompetent lawyer gets obsessed with revenge after he loses his case against a local mobster who fronts as a boxing promoter. Cast: Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King, Jack Warden, Eli Wallach. Directed by Irwin Winkler. Categories: Organized Crime  Sports  Drama
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	Offside (2006) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    92 min.   Plot: A group of Iranian girls who attempts to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium dressed as boys in order to watch a big football match. In Farsi with English subtitles. Cast: Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi, Ida Sadeghi, Golnaz Farmani. Directed by Jafar Panahi. Categories: Foreign  Gender  Sports
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	On the Waterfront (1954) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    108 min.  B&W Plot: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger. Directed by Elia Kazan. Categories: Sports  Employment  Drama
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	Pope of Greenwich Village, The (1984) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    121 min.   Plot: Two small-time con men find themselves in trouble with both the Mafia and a corrupt police department. Cast: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan, Burt Young. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Categories: Organized Crime  Mystery/Suspense  Sports
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	Raging Bull (1980) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  129 min.  B&W Plot: An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it. Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Categories: Sports  Biography  Marital Relations
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	Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    86 min.  B&W Plot: A boxer at the end of his career ends up back in the ring as a wrestler to save his gambling manager. Cast: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris. Directed by Ralph Nelson. Categories: Sports  Entertainment  Health
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	Rudy  (1983) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    114 min.   Plot: After being told he wasn't smart enough to go to Notre Dame, or big enough to play on the football team, Rudy becomes determined to do just that. Cast: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Lili Taylor, Robert Prosky. Directed by David Anspaugh. Categories: Biography  Sports  Drama
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	Seabiscuit (2003) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    141 min.   Plot: True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it, but also those of the nation. Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks. Directed by Gary Ross. Categories: Biography  Sports  Drama
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	Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    113 min.   Plot: A young man discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money, and is discovered as a new talent in the ring. Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, sal Mineo. Directed by Robert Wise. Categories: Biography  Drama  Sports
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	We Are Marshall (2006) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    131 min.   Plot: 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. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara. Directed by McG. Categories: Sports  Drama
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	Wrestler, The (2008) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    109 min.   Plot: A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle. Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Categories: Entertainment  Sports  Drama
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	Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The (2006) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    104 min.   Plot: In 1970 Brazil, as the World Cup is about to begin, a boy's parents leave him at his grandfather's apartment where he learns that his grandfather has had a heart attack and died. In Portuguese and Yiddish with English subtitles. Cast: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Paulo Autran, Simone Spoladore. Directed by Cao Hamburger. Categories: Sports  Entertainment  Children
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The W&M Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to our Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you think the library should own, please submit a suggestion form at the circulation desk, or send us an email at [[lawcir]]. You can see a list of all Law Library movies in the online catalog.