6 movies about ordinary people with athleticism

How many success stories can you think of right now? We bet that the list will include some that tell of great athletes or big victories. In such cases, sporting character plays a decisive role in life, which makes you put everything on the line and go all the way to your dreams.

We have collected a selection of feature films about how quite ordinary people made a “leap” and won the main competition in their lives.

“Bouncers”, 2004

A movie that has seen, maybe not everyone, but many. Recall the plot: a major chain of fitness gyms is on the verge of another takeover of an ordinary and unremarkable gym, which is owned by a group of friends.

A movie with a classic scenario for American cinema: there’s drama here, in which the heroes must take risks and are sure to be the winners of the story. So, in order to save the hall, the friends need to find a large sum of money. To get such money is possible, if at the national championship on dodgeball to win first place.

“The Man Who Changed Everything,” 2011.

The movie was based on the book by Michael M. Lewis about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its legendary manager, Billy Beane.

Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill

Despite the fact that the picture is about professional sports and tells how the baseball team, overcome by crises on the way to success, the players could save the risk. They had to trust a man far from sports, a graduate of the Faculty of Economics, who proposed a system of selection to the team. Well, then you will be waiting for a cocktail of emotional drama and a good cast of actors. Watch 100%.

“Run, Fatty, Run,” 2007.

What can we say? Comedy again, now with a touch of melodrama. Imagine London, a marathon and thousands of people running along the Thames Embankment.

One of them is a not very athletic looking loser named Doyle. He sees a goal and runs towards it, wanting with all his heart to regain respect for himself and his latest love, Libby (the girl he left pregnant at the altar five years ago). Will Doyle be able to accomplish his goal and run the marathon? No spoiler, don’t expect one.

The other selection talked about colorful sports movie characters.

“Tonya vs. Everybody,” 2017

No matter how it may seem to you at first, but this is not a comedy, but a movie with meaning, which touches on a rather important issue of modernity, but about it later.

Margot Robbie (left)

Figure skating is the sport of those who, from an early age, sharpen their skates on ice arenas, disappearing there for eight hours a day. The movie “Tonya Against All Odds” tells a slightly different and real story about a savage girl from the American slums.

Her life is a never-ending process of violence against her, to which first her abusive mother and then her sadistic husband had a hand. Sure, Tonya becomes a great figure skater, but her background is just as weighty as her accomplishments. And, in fact, the issue of domestic violence, which stitches a red thread through the movie, makes us think about our real lives as well.

“The Karate Kid,” 1984.

The main character Dan moves with his mother to Los Angeles and becomes a freshman at a neighborhood school. Nothing supernatural.

Absolutely ordinary teenager without exceptional physical qualities and sports experience very quickly makes enemies. But by the will of fate Dan gets acquainted with an old Japanese Miyagi, a karate master, and begins to learn the martial art in a very unconventional way. The movie became a cult among fans of martial arts and spawned an entire franchise.

“The Mighty Ducks”, 1992

What is interesting about this movie? Because it was the basis for the creation of the National Hockey League team, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. This is the same team whose logo is the legendary and stylish duck in a hockey mask with two crossed sticks.

In 1992, the Walt Disney Company released a movie called “The Mighty Ducks”. The plot will tell you about the ordinary children of St. Paul, who played hockey in the yard. They had no special talents or money, but this did not prevent them from becoming champions. The picture is imbued with love for life, character, passion for your favorite cause and getting high from everything that happens around you.