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Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon
»rank: 10464
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Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man
»rank: 11486
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The Waterboy
»rank: 10810
:Description:America's favorite wild and zany funnyman, Adam Sandler (THE WEDDlNG SlNGER), scores big laughs in a smash comedy hit where the laughs never run dry! Just an oddball mama's boy from the back bayous of Louisiana, Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt! But when Coach Klein (Henry Winkler -- SCREAM) makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself, it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up ...
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
»rank: 805
:Description:Slapstick comedy about a losing basketball team. At the end of their rope, the players decide to try astrology - it can't hurt, right? Features a disco soundtrack.
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The Karate Kid Part II
»rank: 3715
: :Literally picking up about five minutes after the conclusion of the 1984 The Karate Kid, this 1986 sequel, also directed by John G. Avildsen, sends Ralph Macchio's and Pat Morita's characters to the latter's home turf in Japan, where the older man is confronted by an old rival, and Macchio's newly confident fighter gets a tougher challenge than the punks back home. Sillier than its predecessor, this follow-up at least has some distracting soap opera elements in Morita's coming to terms with an ...
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A League of Their Own
»rank: 12401
: essential video:Penny Marshall's popular 1992 comedy sheds light on a little-known chapter of American sports history with its story of a struggling team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The league was formed when the recruiting of soldiers during World War ll resulted in a shortage of men's baseball teams. The AAGPBL continued after the war (until 1954), and Marshall's movie depicts the league in full swing, beginning when a savvy baseball scout (Jon Lovitz) finds a pair of promising new ...
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Mad About Mambo
»rank: 11582
: :Before she became America's sweetheart in Felicity, Keri Russell adopted an lrish brogue and starred as a willowy, wealthy lass with a passion for dancing in this coming-of-age romantic comedy. She's the object of affection for working-class William Ash, a football-loving lad who signs up for classes, hoping to acquire a little of the Latin flair of a Brazilian soccer superstar with moves like Fred Astaire. 'We don't run with the ball, we dance,' and so does Ash when he falls for snooty ...
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Wildcats
»rank: 15697
: :Goldie Hawn plays a physical education teacher who gets a chance to coach an inner-city high school football team. lf that sounds contrived, it is, but in the hands of director Michael Ritchie (Smile), the jokes all fire, and there's plenty of comedy teased out in details. (The cheerleading squad has some funny moments just belting out their morale-boosting chants.) The supporting cast has a couple of significant up-and-comers: Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes. --Tom Keogh
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It Happens Every Spring
»rank: 1005
: :Cheating? Who's cheating? When an egghead chemistry professor (Ray Milland) stumbles upon a formula for making baseballs resistant to the touch of wood, he sneaks a little onto a pitcher's glove and for a time has a career throwing from a major league mound. Set aside ethical concerns: this light comedy is in an Absent-Minded Professor mold, with balls clownishly, impossibly dancing around the swing of batters. (Besides that, the climax requires an act of minor heroism on the prof's part when the ...
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Major League
»rank: 8138
: :A baseball comedy and slob comedy rolled into one, this one actually works as entertainment, if not as a piece of cinematic mastery. James Gammon is the has-been manager hired to lead the last-place Cleveland lndians whose owner wants them to lose so she can sell them. But the team of has-beens and never-wases that he assembles (including Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, and Wesley Snipes) develops a sense of pride and turns the team around. There's plenty of rowdy humor about ...
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