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Part of the fun of watching sports movies is getting all of the drama of the big game without the boring bits that can make real-life sporting events less exciting. You get to watch all of the sweat, tears and glory, and you know that your favorite team will probably win in the end. All of the action shots will be perfectly filmed and presented in HD, and so you'll never miss the big play because of a bad camera angle! So what are some of the best sports movies of all time? Here's a list of some recent favorites.
1. Field of Dreams
It's easy to forget that Kevin Costner used to be cool, but this 1989 baseball fantasy film won the hearts of everyone from little kids to grown men. It also produced one of the most quoted movie lines of all time: "If you build it, he will come" (which is often misquoted as "if you build it, they will come"). The line was even spoofed in Wayne's World II, in which Wayne and Garth build a huge music festival stage to try and get Aerosmith to come (which of course they do).
2. Hoop Dreams
This documentary about two African-American teens trying to break the cycle of poverty by succeeding in basketball wouldn't seem so remarkable in today's world of reality TV. But when it came out in 1994, it seemed revolutionary, winning the Audience Award at that year's Sundance Film Festival and receiving incredible praise from critics and viewers alike. Filmed over a period of five years, the film touches on issues of race, class, and the cycle of urban poverty, and is almost guaranteed to make a grown man cry.
3. Jerry Macguire
This 1996 Cameron Crowe film about the commercialism and dishonesty in sports management is one of Tom Cruise's finest roles to date. It launched the careers of both Cuba Gooding, Jr. (who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) and Renee Zellwegger as well, and produced some of the most-quoted movie lines of all time. (Surely you know "Show me the money!", "You complete me", "Help me help you", and "You had me at hello").
4. Rocky
This Sylvester Stallone boxing drama franchise will release its seventh installment later this year, but it all started in 1976 with the Oscar-winning original (Best Picture and Best Director). This film has produced some incredibly iconic images, such as Rocky running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art during training, a sight that now gets lots of tourists who have very little interest in viewing famous paintings!
5. Caddyshack
This 1980 golfing comedy still keeps audiences in stitches 30 years later. The film came out when comedic giants Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Billy Murray will all at the peaks of their careers. Its hysterical but crude slapstick humor was a megahit with audiences at the time, and was even placed on a list of the 100 funniest American films of all time by the American film institute.
