Sports movie

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Directors Sara Newens and Mina T. Son have taken a recreational pastime previously banished to basements and turned it into compelling sports drama. Exhilarating, inspiring, and sometimes heartbreaking, ‘Top Spin’ is an entertaining look at what it takes to be champion.

Goon Directed by Michael Dowse Written by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg Canada, U.S.A., 2011 A sports theme film will more often than not do two specific things. First, it will share the story of either and individual or team, considered to be the underdogs against the clearly more powerful and skilled opposition, who overcomes …