Michael Ritchie
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
3) Fletch
Pub. Date
[2007]
Formats
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favor. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Pub. Date
2009, p1969
Description
A talented but self-involved downhill skier claims victory at the expense of emotional and family attachments.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When a lawsuit creates a little league team with players no one else wanted, Morris Buttermaker agrees to coach the team using his own unique approach to sports; the Bears must find a new coach to help them play at the Astrodome in Houston; the Bears travel to Japan to play against the best Japanese little league team.
Formats
Description
Donald Quinelle, a rising sales executive, is sacked by his boss's pet parrot the same day that Sonny Paluso watches his gas station go up in flames. Drowning their sorrows at a coffee shop, the two New Yorkers disarm a would-be bandit, Jack Locke, and briefly become media heroes--then quickly learn about the price and perils of survival in an insane world. Jack is freed by a bureaucratic slip-up and goes gunning for Sonny and Donald, who discover...
10) The scout
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A down and out baseball scout finds a truly amazing player in a small Mexican town, however, the player is literally crazy.
11) Diggstown
Pub. Date
c2000, c1992
Description
Hustler Gabriel Caine, just out of prison, heads to Diggstown, a small town where boxing matches go down with no rules and high stakes, and tries to set up the town owner by arranging for ten Diggstown men to fight a retired contender in 24 hours.
12) The golden child
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Murphy goes to the rescue of a child with mystical powers who has been abducted by an evil cult.
13) Fletch
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...