The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #23. Believe in Me
Every single sport has a movie drama with an underdog no one believes in us story. Some of the best sports movies are Cinderella tales like this - Rocky, Rudy, Karate Kid, Bad News Bears, heck most of this basketball list falls under the banner. This one involves Catholic women from an age ago (60s). I wasn't too familiar with Jeffrey Donovan other than what he did in Hitch, but he has enough charisma here to carry you through the story. Samantha Mathis was Daisy in Super Mario and Frank Castle's wife in Punisher. Bruce Dern seems like a villain in everything he plays and is no exception here. I didn't necessarily feel like I was able to learn about the player characters very much, I don't think the movie does a great job at separating the ladies in the way that was meaningful. It isn't as clunky as Hurricane Season in character building, but it's no Remember the Titans either. It felt like an extra ending was tacked on, even though it wasn't a bad scene, most of these movies don't have a conclusion typically outside of the court. Our highest IMDB score so far. The very last scene was neat as it was a based on a true story and showed the actual team celebrating the coach.
Movie | Rotten Tom | Rotten Tom Aud | IMDB | Internet Rank | My Rank |
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23. Believe in Me | 60 | 74 | 7.0 | 16 | 29 |
24. High Flying Bird | 91 | 50 | 6.2 | 20 | 26 |
25. "O" | 64 | 58 | 6.1 | 22 | 25 |
26. Forget Paris | 48 | 56 | 6.5 | 29 | 19 |
27. Sunset Park | 13 | 83 | 5.9 | 31 | 21 |
28. Game Day | 50 | 82 | 5.4 | 25 | 30 |
29. Blue Chips | 37 | 51 | 6.2 | 33 | 23 |
30. Amateur | 60 | 66 | 5.9 | 24 | 32 |
31. The Air Up There | 21 | 35 | 5.5 | 38 | 20 |
32. Space Jam | 43 | 63 | 6.5 | 27 | 31 |
33. Semi-Pro | 22 | 38 | 5.8 | 36 | 24 |
34. Heaven Is a Playground | 50 | 84 | 5.8 | 21 | 39 |
35. Hurricane Season | 50 | 69 | 6.5 | 23 | 38 |
36. Teen Wolf | 42 | 52 | 6.1 | 34 | 34 |
37. Boogie | 42 | 57 | 5.2 | 35 | 36 |
38. Rebound | 14 | 38 | 5.1 | 40 | 33 |
39. Slam Dunk Ernest | 50 | 31 | 4.5 | 37 | 37 |
40. Eddie | 17 | 36 | 5.2 | 39 | 40 |
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