Comedy
Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA), the worst team in the league. In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the NBA plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. If the Tropics want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
East Is East
Grosse Pointe Blank
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
Smokey and the Bandit
Major League II
Eddie
They Called Him Bulldozer
Break!
D2: The Mighty Ducks
Mike Bassett: England Manager
Freaky Ali
Grind
Breaking Away
The Prince of Tennis: Showdown in England's Tennis Fortress
Johnny Be Good
Cobweb
Big & Little
Blue Juice
Ernest Goes to School
Gus
SIMILAR MOVIES
East Is East
IMDB 6.5 | May , 1999
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.Grosse Pointe Blank
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 1997
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 2004
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.Smokey and the Bandit
IMDB 7 | May , 1977
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.Major League II
IMDB 5.7 | Mar , 1994
After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! However, they first have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team.Eddie
IMDB 5.4 | May , 1996
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid primaThey Called Him Bulldozer
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1978
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.Break!
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1985
This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.D2: The Mighty Ducks
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 1994
After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame and must regather if the Ducks are to defeat tournament favourites Iceland.Mike Bassett: England Manager
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2001
After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.Freaky Ali
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2016
A debt collector becomes a major sensation when he takes on the rich man's sport of golfing.Grind
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2003
Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.Breaking Away
IMDB 7.1 | May , 1979
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.The Prince of Tennis: Showdown in England's Tennis Fortress
IMDB 4 | Sep , 2011
Seigaku travels to England to play a tournament representing Japan but they are attacked by a group of street tennis players who were banned from playing official tournaments because of their rough play.Johnny Be Good
IMDB 4.5 | Mar , 1988
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?Cobweb
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2023
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?Big & Little
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 2016
Blue Juice
IMDB 4 | Sep , 1995
JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.Ernest Goes to School
IMDB 3.8 | Dec , 1994
Jim Varney's recurring dim-bulb character Ernest P. Worrell returns in this film as a school janitor seeking to obtain a high school diploma.Gus
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1976
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.