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The Basketball Diaries: 1995 Drama Based on Jim Carroll's harrowing true story of drug addiction starring Leonardo DiCaprio. [5] Forget Paris: 1995 Rom-com A temperamental NBA referee (Billy Crystal) tries to make his new marriage work. [7] Slam Dunk Ernest: 1995 Comedy Featuring the character played in many films by Jim Varney. [1] Space Jam: 1996
Glory Road is a 2006 American sports drama film directed by James Gartner, based on a true story surrounding the events leading to the 1966 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship. Don Haskins portrayed by Josh Lucas , head coach of Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso or UTEP), coached a team with an all ...
Despite the title, facing reality is the true focus behind Hoop Dreams. We follow William and Arthur, the two Chicago teens who drive the narrative, through all four of their years as high school ...
Goat (2016) – drama film telling the true story of a 19-year-old and his brother who pledge the same fraternity and experience hazing [71] Gold (2016) – crime drama film based on the true story of the 1993 Bre-X mining scandal, when a massive gold deposit was supposedly discovered in the jungles of Indonesia [72]
Glen Powell cemented his A-list status with this jovial, fact-based comedy-thriller from director Richard Linklater based on an infamous Texas Monthly article about Gary Johnson, a mild-mannered ...
20. High Flying Bird. It borders cliché to write it at this point, but it really is true: Steven Soderbergh really is the master of making a stellar film in any genre.
Hustle is a 2022 American sports comedy-drama film [2] directed by Jeremiah Zagar, written by Taylor Materne and Will Fetters, and co-produced by and starring Adam Sandler as a down-on-his-luck National Basketball Association (NBA) scout who discovers a raw but talented basketball player in Spain (Juancho Hernangómez) and tries to prepare him for the NBA draft.
Based on the non-fiction novel “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, “Lion” tells the story of Saroo, portrayed by Dev Patel, who gets lost on a train and ends up thousands of miles away ...