Want to watch an inspirational, kid-friendly or slapstick story about your favorite sport? These top sports movies of all time are your best bets.
Categorized as a sports comedy-drama, “A League of Their Own” certainly lives up to the title. During World War II, with many young American men enlisted, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed. “A League of Their Own” gives a fictionalized account of that real-life league, as it follows two competitive sisters and their teammates as they blaze the trail for generations to come of women in sports.
Bill Murray is hilarious as always, and Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight and Michael O'Keefe round out the star cast. Its crude humor has stood the test of time, making “Caddyshack” a must-see.Based on the story of figure skater Tonya Harding and her connection to the 1994 attack on her rival and Olympic teammate, Nancy Kerrigan, “I, Tonya” is a riveting biographical sports movie worth watching.
You don’t even have to like golf to appreciate the gripping story that “The Greatest Game Ever Played” tells.Chadwick Boseman stars as baseball player Jackie Robinson in “42,” a biographical sports movie that tells the story of the first Black athlete to play in Major League Baseball during the modern era.
And can we talk about the ensemble cast? A movie that stars Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Aaron Eckhart, John C. McGinley and NFL players Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor has to be worth the watch.After watching “Blue Crush” for the first time, I literally tried to convince my parents to move our life from New Jersey all the way to Hawaii so I could become a professional surfer.