A Movie Scene Quiz

31. Castaway (Wilson was a soccer ball)

Yes it was. <groan >

F = Football

1. North Dallas Forty
2. The Replacements
3. Jerry McGuire
4. The Longest Yard
5. Rudy
6. The Best of Times
7. We Are Marshall
8. M*A*S*H
9. The Freshman (1925, Harold Lloyd)
10. Any Given Sunday
11. The Last Boy Scout
12. The Private War of Major Benson
13. Everybody's All-American
14. Forrest Gump
15. Knute Rockne All American
16. Diner (Steve Guttenberg's fiancee must pass a football test or he won't marry her.)
17. Remember the Titans
18. Jim Thorpe, All American
19. Little Giants
20. Air Bud, Golden Receiver
21. Boys in the Hood
22. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
23. High Time (Bing Crosby in college, Fabian as football hero)
24. Horse Feathers
25. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
26. Bend It Like Beckham
27. I.D. (British film about football hooliganism)
28. The Wedding Crashers
29. Radio
30. The Program
31. Castaway (Wilson was a soccer ball)

So what would you consider to be the best Foosball movie ever made, wandeljw?

32. The Big Chill
33. Legally Blonde
34. All the King's Men

That's easy! I am surprised you would ask! Everyone remembers the stirring 1986 movie "Long Shot Kids" starring the acclaimed American actor, Leif Garrett.

Well, I know what I'll be adding to my Netflix queue.



... no, not Long Shot Kids.

I am pretty sure Wilson was a volleyball ball, but I don't want to be picky.

Just checked this out on Wikipedia. You're right, Paaskynen. Wilson was a volleyball. Sorry.

35. Joyeux Noël (2005), soldiers play football in no man's land during the Christmas Truce.
36. All Stars (1997), a youth football team.
37. Victory (1981), POWs play football against the German national team.

Raggedy, if you wish, you can use "Long Shot Kids" as #31. (up to you, of course )

"Castaway" is hereby officially stricken from the list and,
NO thank you, Wandeljw, I do not wish to substitute "Long Shot Kids".


F = Football

1. North Dallas Forty
2. The Replacements
3. Jerry McGuire
4. The Longest Yard
5. Rudy
6. The Best of Times
7. We Are Marshall
8. M*A*S*H
9. The Freshman (1925, Harold Lloyd)
10. Any Given Sunday
11. The Last Boy Scout
12. The Private War of Major Benson
13. Everybody's All-American
14. Forrest Gump
15. Knute Rockne All American
16. Diner (Steve Guttenberg's fiancee must pass a football test or he won't marry her.)
17. Remember the Titans
18. Jim Thorpe, All American
19. Little Giants
20. Air Bud, Golden Receiver
21. Boys in the Hood
22. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
23. High Time (Bing Crosby in college, Fabian as football hero)
24. Horse Feathers
25. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
26. Bend It Like Beckham
27. I.D. (British film about football hooliganism)
28. The Wedding Crashers
29. Radio
30. The Program
31. The Big Chill
32. Legally Blonde
33. All the King's Men
34. Joyeux Noël (2005), soldiers play football in no man's land during the Christmas Truce.
35. All Stars (1997), a youth football team.
36. Victory (1981), POWs play football against the German national team.

37. Siu lam juk kau (2001, Shaolin Soccer), hilarious kung fu fu football
38. Romeo Must Die (2000), Kung fu expert engages in rugby match with black gangsters
39. Kes (1969), impressive young adult film about kid from Leeds "where all the good players come from".
40. Mitt liv som hund (1985, My life as a dog), girl Saga plays incognito in a boy's football team.
41. Tillsammans (2000, Together), hippies play football with their kids.
42. Keeping Mum (2005), Rowan Atkinson is hopeless as a goalie

43.Semi-Tough

44. Heaven Can Wait (1978), football player returns from the dead
45. Arachnophobia (1990), football player killed by a spider
46. Grease (1978)
47. The Prince of Tides (1991), Nick Nolte is football coach
48. Against All Odds (1984), Jeff Bridges is (ex-)football player
49. Wildcats (1986), Goldie Hawn coaches a high school football team
50. Two-Minute Warning (1976), a sniper causes a panic in a football stadium

Good ones!

51. The Last Picture Show (Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms are on the high school football team, Cloris Leachman is married to the football coach)

I always thought this story was a pure fantasy until I recently read that socer matches between German teams and teams from the conquered actually took place. The most famous was the German attempt to create propaganda by having their teams and teams of their allies play against Ukranian soccer players of a temporary team called FC Start (which was made up of the stars of Dynamo Kiev). The Ukranians defeated a German army team and then a Hungarian and a Romanian team, which was bad for the image of the Axis powers, so the Germans fielded their best team, the undefeated Flakelf of the Luftwaffe, which were duly beaten by the Ukranians. The Germans demanded a rematch with an SS officer as referee, but despite committing every foul possible and threathening the Ukranians with execution they lost the match. The Ukranian players were arrested by the Gestapo tortured and sent to a concentration camp, only seven survived. Football is war indeed.

You can read the story here FC Dynamo Kiev

Very interesting link, Paaskynen. Thanks for posting it.

I just saw "Victory" last week, for the second time, and out of curiosity checked some reviews. This paragraph caught my attention.

"Hyped to death during the 1981 NASL season, the film was inspired by the real war-time exploits of Dynamo Kiev (renamed FC Start) who took on the Nazis and won a series of matches in 1942. Unfortunately, on this occasion the Nazis didn't take too kindly to losing and had them slaughtered like dogs."
(Reviewer: Phil Michaels)

Here's one I've been waiting to see again. I don't think it's ever been on TV.

52. Saturday's Hero (John Derek wins scholarship , and resents the fact that all that's required of him is to excel in football. )

Moving on:

G = A scene involving Gardening (a garden being "A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit." (But, no farming, such as cultivation of crops, please.)

1. Dark Victory (Bette Davis is tending her garden when she realizes she is going blind.)

2. American Beauty