Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) knows little about family. Less about football. What the homeless teen knows are the streets and projects of Memphis. Well-to-do Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) knows little about his world. Yet when she and Michael meet, he’s found a home. The Tuohys have found something just as life-changing: a beloved new […]
The Wrestler
Robin Ramzinski (Mickey Rourke), better known by his ring name Randy “The Ram” Robinson, is a professional wrestler who became a celebrity in the 1980s. Now past his prime, Randy wrestles on weekends for independent promotions in New Jersey while working part-time at a supermarket under Wayne (Todd Barry), a demeaning manager who mocks Randy’s […]
We Are Marshall
Southern Airways Flight 932 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 that Marshall University chartered to transport the Thundering Herd football team to Greenville, North Carolina, via Stallings Field in Kinston, North Carolina, and back to Marshall’s campus in Huntington, West Virginia. On the evening of November 14, 1970, the aircraft clipped trees on a ridge just […]
Million Dollar Baby
Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), a waitress from a small Missouri town in the Ozarks, shows up at the Hit Pit, a Los Angeles gym owned and operated by Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood), a boxing trainer. Maggie asks Dunn to train her, but he retorts that he doesn’t train girls. Maggie attempts to persuade Frankie by […]