From 1992 through the early aughts, sports movies ruled entertainment for kids. But where are they now? The writers of some of your favorites weigh in.
in our house looks a whole lot like it looked for my husband and me when we were our daughters' ages. A bowl of popcorn, the sofa bed pulled out, and a movie that premiered somewhere between 1990 and 1999. And because ofwriter and director David Mickey Evans tells me over the phone that his movie made between $40 and $45 million during its theatrical release. . Regardless, these movies were huge for the VHS era..
But what happened? Where did they all go? Despite my love of showing my kids movies from my own childhood, the truth is I can't show them a recent sports movie. Unless it's a remake , the sports movies for kids' era is long gone. And that's exactly what we all love about these great sports movies. It's what we miss in the new, big, splashy animated features and cheesy television shows: the authenticity, the truth, the way it felt like you could slip right into the cast of characters in the show, and nobody would ever know you didn't belong.
The reason the '90s sports movies live so large in our minds could obviously be that they are a part of our childhood and, thus, woven deep into our memories. But it's also worth noting that almost all these movies were big at home. Pincus, Goldberg Sloan, and Evans all reference how pivotal
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