FAVOURITE SPORTS MOVIES


THE NATURAL
Columbia  1984
Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Kim Basinger

Trying to win the World Series, an aging rookie must come to terms with the ghosts of his past.


SLAPSHOT
Universal   1977
Paul Newman, Michael Otkean, Jennifer Warren

Do you even need a discription?!?!


BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY
Paramount  1973
Robert DeNiro, Michael Moriarty, Danny Aiello

Catcher facing the last season of his life unwittingly pulls his team together.


COBB
Warner  1994
Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovitch

Biographer battles the truth and fiction of "the most hated man in baseball".


EIGHT MEN OUT
Orion  1988
John Cusack, DB Sweeney, Perry Lang, Jace Alexander, Clifton James, Christopher Lloyd

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson and the "Black Socks" throw the 1919 World Series


BULL DURHAM
Orion  1988
Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins

Baseball groupie and aging catcher help rookie pitcher make it to the bigs - find love in the end.


FOR LOVE of the GAME
Universal 1999
Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston

Decisions about retirement & an on-again off-again romance in the face of a perfect game.


FIELD of DREAMS
Universal 1989
Kevin Costner (
again!), Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones

"If you build it, he will come"


JERRY MAGUIRE
Columbia TriStar  1996
Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Sports agent loses his job and re-evaluates his life, love and career ethics



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