I recently watched
Million Dollar Baby and
Glory Road, both sports moveis, at least they use sports to move the main plot forward.
Million Dollar Baby is a boxing movie on the outside, but really more about a relationship between two people, one, Clint Eastwood, whose daughter hates him, and the other, Hillary Swank, whose father has died. They form a father - daughter relationship that grows throughout the movie. At one point in the movie I thought that is was fantastic, then later I thought it was pretty good, then by the end of it I was sure it was a very good movie with an ending that makes you really think.
As a plus it has voice-over by Morgan Freeman who is always fantastic.
Glory Road is the true story about the Texas Western basketball team in 1965 - 66 whose coach wanted to win and recruited black players and had three black players starting in the South at a time when there wasn't a single black starter in the whole SEC.
They played the most important college basketball game of all time in 1966 against Kentucky in the National Championship game in which the Texas Western (now UTEP) team decided that only the black players would play in the whole game. Even though I knew the ending of the movie already it still is an excellent story. That game was the sole reason that Southern schools started more seriously recruiting black players as starters and not as token bench players.
I would also recommend finding the book
Glory Road, written by Don Haskins the coach, I know I'm going to.
