Genre
Sports Movies
Films structured around athletic competition, where the game supplies the shape — training, setback, final contest — and the real subject is usually something else entirely.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese · 1980
Hoosiers
David Anspaugh · 1986
Rocky
John G. Avildsen · 1976
Moneyball
Bennett Miller · 2011
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