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The End on VHS. Skate video starring Tony Hawk, Andrew Reynolds, Bucky Lasek, Stephen Berra, Heath Kirchart, Jeremy Klein, Rick McCrank, Willy Santos. Directed by Jamie Mosberg. 1998.
From the box:
A Birdhouse Skateboard Film.
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Downhill Racer on VHS. Starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv. Directed by Michael Ritchie. 1969.
From the box:
Director Michael Ritchie’s (The Golden Child) debut film is a tense and taut look at the world of Olympic skiing. Robert Redford is the hero, a handsome loner from Idaho Springs, Colorado, bent on making to the top of the heap. As the pressure and tension build, Redford handles himself well, learning in the process how fleeting and lonely fame can be. Redford is well cast as the all-American boy chasing his dream, and Gene Hackman is excellent as the tough and demanding American ski coach.
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Major League on VHS. Starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen. With Margaret Whitton, James Gammon, Rene Russo, Bob Uecker, Wesley Snipes, Charles Cyphers, Chelcie Ross, Dennis Haysbert. Directed by David S. Ward. 1989.
From the box:
She’s beautiful, smart, goal-oriented, and she just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. So she signs the wildest gang of screwballs that ever spit tobacco.
They’re handsome, but they’re hopeless! Her catcher (Tom Berenger) is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her ace pitcher (Charlie Sheen) is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. And her third baseman (L.A. Law’s Corbin Bernsen) is more concerned fielding endorsements than grounders.
Throw in a bus load of other misfits and you’ve got yourself a hilarious line-up thats destined for disaster! Or is it?
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Bob Uecker’s Sport Show All-Star Comedy on VHS. Starring Bob Uecker, Tex Cobb, Dick Vitale, Jay Johnstone, Ben Davidson, “Boom Boom” Geoffrion, Joe Torres, Al Bernstein, Henry Lawrence and Roy Firestone. 1988.
From the box:
Bob Uecker is back and funnier than ever! Bob “Mr. Baseball” Uecker Sport Show’s guests include Dick Vitale, Ben Davidson, Jay Johnstone, Tex Cobb, Joe Torres, Al Bernstein and Roy Firestone, among others.
For the first time you’ll see your favorite athletes singing, dancing, joking their way into the Uecker hall of fame. Former Los Angeles Raider Henry Lawrence and ESPN boxing analyst Al Bernstein warble their hearts out while sports personality Roy Firestone does his hilarious sports impressions. Bringing it all together is the acknowledged master of sports comedy Bob Uecker. “The Bob Uecker Sports Show” is perfect for sports fans who enjoy a good laugh. It’s “Mr. Baseball” at his very best.
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Super Dave Ultimate Stuntman on VHS. Starring Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein). 1996.
He’s brave. He’s fearless. And although his crack crew does everything possible to prepare him to face the most challenging and life threatening stunts ever devised, sometimes he has an accident.
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Slap Shot on VHS. Starring Paul Newman. With Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, M. Emmet Walsh, Jerry Houser, David Hanson, Steve Carlson, Jeff Carlson. Directed by George Roy Hill. 1977.
From the box:
This irreverent and outrageously funny look into the world of professional ice hockey has Paul Newman as the coach of the Chiefs, a third-rate minor league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up three odd-looking players whose job it is to literally attack and demolish the opposition, to the delight and cheers of a steadily increasing throng of fans. Slap Shot‘s hockey sequences, reminiscent of the football games in MASH and The Longest Yard, offer a freewheeling mixture of slapstick humor and grisly physical violence.
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Hoosiers on VHS. Starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper. Directed by David Anspaugh. 1986.
From the box:
It’s 1951 in Hickory, Indiana–a place that takes its basketball as seriously as religion. Into this tiny town strolls Norman Dale, a once-hailed, now-failed college coach taking up the unenviable task of coaching Hickory High’s eight-man hoop squad. Dale has been down on his luck for the last ten years, and hopes this could be a fresh start… but several people have something to say about his suspicious training methods and unorthodox bench manner. The school’s vice-principal, who is keeping his best player in the classroom; the town drunk, who is ruffling midwestern feathers as the new assistant coach, and Dale’s team, who are short on both height and discipline.
The school and the town want him fired. But Coach Dale believes in two things–himself and his team. Amazingly, kids become captains…players become a team…losers become winners…has-beens become once-agains. Together they make history in Hoosiers.
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The Bad News Bears on VHS. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal. With Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten. Directed by Michael Ritchie. 1976.
From the box:
A major surprise as one of 1976’s top grossing films, The Bad News Bears is a movie about children that is refreshing, utterly believable, and quite cleverly funny. Walter Matthau is at his absolute best as the grumbling beer-guzzling former minor-league pitcher who gets roped into coaching a band of half-pint misfits somewhat loosely called a team. With this bunch in uniform, it’s impossible to get caught up in the suburban competitive spirit that drives other adults to extremes of parental discipline. So, instead, the Bears have a good time.
Instant Rental: The Bad News Bears (1976)
