I’m a big fan of the movie “The Cutting Edge”, a figure skating movie with Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney (“toe pick!”). There was a show this fall that had figure skaters paired up with NHL hockey players - apparently one of the biggest problems the hockey players had was getting used to skates with toe picks.
I’m not a huge sports fan either, but I also tend to like sports movies. I think it’s because the action of having the sports in the background lends itself to supplying drama and moving a plot forward naturally.
Ahh yes, that one is cute as well. I don’t like pairs skating as much, but that movie (as well as the ABC Family sequels) are decent movies. I had almost forgotten about them.
Yes!! Love this one – the casting is phenomenal and the attention to detail with the real events is amazingly detailed.
Since we’re talking cable programming here, I’ll throw in a couple of HBO baseball documentaries – The Ghosts of Flatbush about the Brooklyn Dodgers history and eventual move to LA; and Nine Innings from Ground Zero about how Yankess baseball helped heal NYC after 9/11. Both fantastic stories.
(Also, sorry I missed the previous mentions of Victory and Bend it Like Beckham – both soccer movies deserving mention.)
Some lesser sports movies from the 80’s that I liked as a kid:
American Flyers - Stars Kevin Coster (he has to be the King of sports movies, right?) and another actor as brothers in a big cycling race. Costars a young and very hot Alexandra Paul, who briefly shows her boobies.
The Best of Times - stars Kurt Russell and Robin Williams as two men who organize a rematch of a high school football title game that they played and lost many years previously. The supporting cast is solid and the two leads play their parts (as two guys living in the past and longing for their glory days) really well.
