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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

A great 80s BMX movie!

Posted, somewhere back there. Filmed in Johnstown, PA and the old Cambria County War Memorial Rink. Before the Chiefs there was the Johnstown Jets.

"the peanut vendors are standing up to them. and by Golly, if I could be down there, I'd be standing up to them"

Bruce Boudreau was an extra. I haven't been able to spot him.

The best movie ever according to the grade school version of myself!!! Just about wore out the VHS. Anyone know where I can get a digital copy?

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Fuck yeah. We won a bet with our high-school wrestling coach and he had to dress like the coach from the movie for a whole practice lol...



Plus we always did log training...

I look like a banker in this.

I can’t believe All Stars hasn’t been mentioned yet 🤣 most realistic youth sports flick I’ve seen.

Can't believe I forgot to mention Vision Quest - excellent choice.

Also can't believe there's no love out there for North Dallas 40. Makes me sad.....for y'all.

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"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare" - Juma Ikangaa

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I have reviewed all the replies, and I cannot believe that Brian's Song hasn't received a single mention.

It should have been the first answer, and the thread ended at that point.

They have chili dogs over there?

Chariots of Fire is a line from a William Blake poem. So it seems fitting for the movie.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

Rewatch it. It’s not as good a movie as you remember. I rewatched it a few years ago with my son and it was overly sappy, boring at times, and Caan’s performance isn’t as good as everyone remembered. Field of Dreams carries a far heavier emotional impact, IMO, because Costner and Jones are just better actors than Caan and Williams.

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I would categorize Brian’s Song as more of a buddies movie rather than a sports movie. Football just happens to be part of it.

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