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Everyone loves an underdog. That’s why we’re drawn to sports movies—there’s something special about the magic depicted in Remember The Titans, Miracle, or even something silly like The Waterboy. But good sports books, and we mean good ones, go even deeper.
1) Annapolis
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jake Huard, a local kid, is a shipbuilder's son who wants to prove to his father, not to mention himself, that he can cut it as a Naval officer. But at the Academy he runs afoul of a hard-nosed training officer named Cole who does all he can to drive Huard out of the school. They end up settling their differences in the boxing ring during the Academy's annual competition.
2) Fight club
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe is a championship boxer who is not supposed to die in a plane crash, but is brought to heaven too soon by an overeager angel. Mr. Jordan, the angel's boss, finds Joe a new body and gives him another chance to fight, but Joe meets a young woman who gives him a reason to live beyond prize fighting.
4) Annapolis
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jake Huard, a local kid, is a shipbuilder's son who wants to prove to his father, not to mention himself, that he can cut it as a Naval officer. But at the Academy he runs afoul of a hard-nosed training officer named Cole who does all he can to drive Huard out of the school. They end up settling their differences in the boxing ring during the Academy's annual competition.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Blu-ray Disc version].
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
20 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 portable plastic container
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A collection of essential 1990s movies in one convenient box for binge watching. Titles included: Apollo 13 (Rated PG), Braveheart (Rated R), Clueless (Rated PG-13), Dazed and Confused (Rated R), Edward Scissorhands (Rated PG-13), Jurassic Park (Rated PG-13), Fight Club (Rated R), Forrest Gump (Rated PG-13), Pulp Fiction (Rated R), The Shawshank Redmption (Rated R), The Matrix (Rated R), The Mask (PG-13), Titanic (Rated PG-13), The Sixth Sense (Rated...
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