Top 10 Best Teen Sports Movies

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welcome to Ms mojo and today we're

counting down our picks for the top 10

team sports movies for this list we'll

be looking at the best sports films that

feature teen athletes it a sports movie

with a teen angle or vice versa we won't

be splitting hairs too much with the

ages of the teens in question but the

closer to high-school age the better

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however flicks that clearly aren't

directed at teens or explicitly are

about college age or older people like

Rudy will be excluded is this just for

your father

no it's for everybody who told me that

being a Notre Dame football player would

be impossible number 10 stick it

gymnastics tells you no all day long it

mocks you over and over again come to

think of it there are too many

gymnastics movies out there but if there

were ever an argument for their

production its 2006 its ticket following

a former gymnastics superstar turned

delinquent turned gymnastics hopeful

this sports comedy has all the spunk and

attitude it needs to match its teenaged

protagonists it has a super charismatic

ensemble from its lead missy peregrym

to grounded veteran actor Jeff Bridges

all of whom make the proceedings fun and

endearing what's up your butt what do

you say about my butt not only that but

it's also bookended by some surprisingly

profound themes ones that state that

true worth comes not from a group of

strangers with scorecards but from

oneself I couldn't look back and think

it was about the judges or the parents

of the coaches at all it was about us

number nine whip it following her

oscar-nominated turn in 2007's juno

Ellen Page was a hot commodity in terms

of giving comedies a wryly quirky edge

I'm sorry that these pageants don't live

up to your high moral standards bliss

but there's a lot you can learn

two years later we were graced with her

performance in whippet a coming-of-age

film about a teenage misfit who box at

her mother pestering her to be a beauty

queen and does ostensibly the exact

opposite roller derby roller derby in

addition to Paige the film boasts a

magnetic supporting cast that includes

Kristen Wiig Juliette Lewis alia Shawkat

ari Graynor Marcia Gay Harden and Drew

Barrymore the latter of whom also made

her directorial debut with the project

while Barry Morris yet to follow up the

feature so long as her next is as funny

and endearing as this one we have no

qualms that's right a little you know

they need to be ruthless this is a

contact sport bliss eventually I'm going

to need you to make contact number eight

varsity blues this isn't going to be our

last high school football movie or even

second-to-last but varsity blue still

has plenty to offer it deals with the

emotional turmoil of a team with a

tyrannical coach who will do whatever it

takes to win even at the expense of the

players health don't you worry

you're gonna play every minute of that

game nurse doesn't think I should play

this is a heavier watch than most on our

list as it delves into the vulnerable

nature of pressured youth and the

heedless community that seeks to exploit

them predictable wait a minute wait a

minute I thought telling kids tear ups

maybe but it charges into it's impactful

themes with earnestness

and a serious chip on its shoulder

leading to more than one memorable

moment the day was ours

and no one can ever take it away

number seven The Basketball Diaries okay

now this has to be the heaviest sports

movie if not the heaviest team movie

based on a memoir of the same name the

Basketball Diaries follows a young

Leonardo DiCaprio's Jim Carroll a

talented high school basketball player

whose dealings with his delinquent

friends leads him to a life of crime and

heroin addiction

used to be about getting high yeah and

playing basketball but not just about

getting high with you needless to say

it's not for the faint of heart

but it does serve as a potent cautionary

tale against juvenile self-destruction

and wasted potential alongside a

captivating DiCaprio is Mark Wahlberg in

one of his earliest roles with the to

exude the kind of screen presence that

would later define their careers

number six Bend It Like Beckham another

film about a teenager who follows her

athletic passions despite disapproving

parents Bend It Like Beckham was the

surprise coming-of-age sensation back in

2002 what family will want a

daughter-in-law who can run around

kicking footbal all day but can't make

round chapatis it follows Jess a British

Indian Sikh who's prohibited from

playing football by her traditional

family that's it no more football

unbeknownst to them she joins a local

Women's Club anyway and excels alongside

her new friend Jules played by Keira

Knightley clever witty and charming the

film perhaps most importantly finds a

respectful bridge between familial

traditions and individuality and if I

can't tell you what I want now then I'll

never be happy whatever I do

writer-director Gurinder Chadha was

critically lauded for the project which

would earn a much deserved Golden Globe

nomination for Best Film Musical or

Comedy number five

bring it on you are cheerleaders

cheerleaders are dancers who have gone

retards first we stuck it then we

whipped it then we bended it now we're

gonna bring it on

sorry couldn't help ourselves anyway

this teen comedy centers on torrents the

newly appointed captain of a successful

cheerleading squad who learns that all

of their routines were plagiarized

we can't go to regionals with a solo

routine now tasked with tapping into

their creativity the team must carve out

a new identity if they're to compete

starring Kirsten Dunst in a fan favorite

role bring it on has all the appropriate

levels of spirit to make it an eminently

rewatchable cult classic one whose

success was profound enough to spawn an

equally enjoyable direct-to-video

franchise bring it number four

Hoosiers Hoosiers is essentially the

teen sports movie against which all

others are checked loosely based on a

true story it centers on the small town

of Hickory Indiana whose 1951 highschool

basketball season is thrown into a

people upon the hiring of a strict new

coach play to perfection by Gene Hackman

nowadays the story is fairly formulaic

chronicling a David versus Goliath

showdown that sees the Hickory Huskers

make a run at the state championship

anybody have anything they want to say

yeah let's win this and for all the

small schools and ever had a chance to

get here however the end result is so

believable and exciting that it makes

you realize why the cliches work to

begin with and how big small-town dreams

can really be number three remember the

Titans

it might seem out of character for

Disney to produce a racially charged

biographical football drama starring

Denzel Washington but that is exactly

what happened in 2000 with Remember the

Titans your team needs you tonight your

you're gonna command your troops tonight

you understand set in 1971 the film

follows the factual Herman Boone who is

hired to coach a newly integrated

football team in Alexandria Virginia

tensions are high and prejudices must be

overcome

in order to form a bonafide team and

community football is about controlling

that anger harnessing that aggression

into a team effort to achieve perfection

the approach is familiar but the formula

has rarely been put to such good use as

it is here not once does the film come

off as false and it manages to hit the

right emotional beats scene after scene

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Remember the Titans as if we could

forget number 2 The Karate Kid Rock's

own right and backs off an argument

could be made that Karate is more of a

martial art than a sport per se but

seeing as 1984 s The Karate Kid

culminates in a competitive tournament

we're giving it the go-ahead for

inclusion

you'll begin a luck its enduring legacy

means more likely than not you're

already familiar with the story but

there's something about the

interpersonal relationship between bully

teen Daniel Larusso and his aged karate

master mr. Miyagi that resonates every

time we see it sure it's zero to hero

arc is predictable but that doesn't stop

the training montages and subsequent

fight choreography from being thoroughly

compelling between this and 1976 is

rocky director John G avildsen really

put his stamp on the sport genre as a

whole

Wow talk about a very John rrah before

we get to our top pick

let's wax on and off a few honorable

mentions Breaking Away oscar-winning

feel-good flick love and basketball

inspiring story of professional and

personal fulfillment a player what one

game one on one oh what your heart he

got game strong performances and honest

human connection

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maybe stop hate means I can bring your

mother back

maybe we can stop being father-and-son

again now can we my father finding

Forrester realistic and good cast

chemistry yo you ever seen

the window no you see us man

come on strong which I won't play ball

Blue Crush exciting surfing action

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Lights based on a true story visa be a

nonfiction book of the same name Friday

Night Lights depicts the football

obsessed Miglia known as Odessa Texas

and the high school varsity team upon

which its hopes ride ask if you think we

get the job done thanks oh well you have

to do better than I think so is that

clear

it's clear starring Billy Bob Thornton

and a superb younger cast the film

shines a harsh yet respectful light on

the kind of strains and pressures that

are placed upon the team its problem you

know if you feel dad I can't show it on

the football so goddamn hard about

holding on to it

I'm sorry all you got to do is hold on

it's a goddamn football and you can't do

it the film is directed by Peter Berg

who would later be known for similarly

taught factual dramas and the same

filmmaking prowess is exercised here was

my hardest for

my heart's poor while not a commercial

sensation it was critically acclaimed

and served as the inspiration for a

Friday Night Lights TV show that spanned

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