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Film · 10 connectionsAfter reluctantly agreeing to coach cross-country, high school basketball Coach John Harrison helps the least likely runner attempt the impossible in the biggest race of the year.
Directed byAlex Kendrick
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2015 · 128 min · Drama · Family
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
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2014 · 98 min · Drama
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
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2023 · 124 min · Comedy · Drama
A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.
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2018 · 144 min · Drama
V P Sathyan, a professional Indian footballer, goes through various ups and downs in his career as he strives hard to fulfil his ambitions.
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2016 · 95 min · Drama · Fantasy
A recently widowed, now single father struggles to raise his sixth-grade son with autism. The pressure of his job and coping with the loss of his wife proves to push him nearly to the breaking point.
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2022 · 105 min · Drama
Two triathletes battle their personal demons while they train for the biggest event of their lives.
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2016 · 108 min · Drama · Family
After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship.
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2008 · 96 min · Drama
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
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2012 · 94 min · Action · Drama
A former NCAA champion wrestler is paroled after 10 years in prison. Now, to save a friend's life, in a series of cage fights he must agree to do the impossible - lose.
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2019 · 88 min · Action · Drama · Family
A high school football coach struggles with the fallout after one of his players dies onfield during practice.
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