subject: 3 Of The Best Based-on-true-story Sports Movies [print this page] Like a good sport movie? Here are some of the best sport movies based on true inspirational stories.
Invincible (2006)
Dick Vermeil is the new coach for the Eagles football team. Wanting to make things interesting, he opens tryouts for a spot on the team. Then, 30 year-old bartender Vince Papale had lost his part time job as a teacher. He often feels ashamed by how he turned out as he had the privilege to attend a university on track scholarship. To make matters worse, his wife leaves him with the last words of how he will always be nothing to the world. However, when they hear about the tryouts, Papales neighborhood friends support him to try it out. He makes it to the training camp and eventually becomes part of the team.
Coach Carter (2005)
A basketball star of his time, Ken Carter takes up the job as the coach at Richmond High School for a team of teenagers who are disrespectful and no care for anything else in the world. He sets up strict rules that seem pointless to the team, where they have to maintain good grades, especially since most of them were failing. Failure meant no participation in the game according to the rules. He also emphasized on the importance and the nature of being a team, and when some failed, everyone would be benched as a team for the failure. Eventually, the team learns to respect him as they learn that his strictness is due to his concern and care for their future. This is one of the best sports movies that inspire people to place importance on the people, and not the game.
Seabiscuit (2004)
Set during the Great Depression, people often felt troubled. However, the presence of an unlikely hero a racehorse named Seabiscuit lifted their spirits for the better. Seabiscuit was a horse that had various owners as they kept passing him to others, often complaining how lazy and unmotivated he was. One day, when he was almost put down by automobile dealer Charles Howard, Tony Smith, a mourning father who had lost his child found a spirit in the horse that attracted him. He saved Seabiscuit and together with a jockey, Johnny Red Bellard and Charles, they cared for the horse as he blossomed. Seabiscuit became a winning horse in the tracks game after game since then.
