Efter at en blind date går grueligt galt, aftaler Jim og Lauren, at de aldrig nogensinde skal se hinanden igen. Men det kommer hurtigt til at ændre sig på en ferie, da de to - inklusive deres familier og børn - alle bliver fanget i samme suite på en afrikansk safaritur!
De vanvittige folk bag højt at flyve har gjort det igen! Leslie Nielsen spiller Police Squads egen betjent Frank Drebin - ham med den klippefaste kæbe og den lige så urokkelige hjerne - som falder over en hypnotiserende plan om at snigmyrde Dronning Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, en udstoppet bæver, to baseballhold og en aparte samling af diverse figurer slutter sig til de skøre løjer og sprænger grinemåleren i stumper og stykker.
Den 12-årige Josh ønsker under en karneval, at han var voksen. Morgenen efter vågner han op - som voksen! Kort efter får han job på en legetøjsfabrik, hvor han hurtigt får succes pga. sine evner til at forudsige, hvad børn kan lide at lege med. Men selv hans smukke kollega Susan kan ikke afhjælpe Josh's søgen tilbage til den ukomplicerede barndom.
I krigstid er det enhver officers ret og pligt at flygte, hvis han skulle blive fanget. Det tager Virgil Hilts og andre allierede officerer meget alvorligt, og da tyskerne placerer flugteksperterne i samme lejr, giver det dem mulighed for at planlægge en usædvanlig masseflugt.
I denne vanvittige sportskomedie optræder baseballholdet Cleveland Indians, som ikke har ikke vundet noget større i årevis og er til grin overalt, hvor de spiller. Da ejeren dør, vil hans unge enke flytte hele holdet til varmere himmelstrøg i Florida, men planen kan kun lykkes, hvis spillerne gør det så dårligt, at publikum bliver væk. Så hele holdet udskiftes med afdankede talenter og skabagtige ungdomsforbrydere såsom Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes m.fl.
Baseball-spilleren Jim Morris kunne være blevet en stor stjerne, men måtte allerede som juniorspiller lægge handsken på hylden på grund af en alvorlig skade i knæet. Nu er han 35 år, utrænet og alt for gammel til at blive professionel. I stedet arbejder han som baseballtræner og lærer på en skole i Texas, hvor han en dag får en kæmpe udfordring af skolens håbløse baseballhold.
Ray er netop flyttet på landet med sin kone og datter, og satser på at tjene til dagen og vejen ved at dyrke korn. En dag hører Ray en stemme, der ifølge hans egen tolkning befaler ham at bygge en baseball-bane midt på sine kornmarker. Banen bliver bygget - og med den følger en række fantastiske, overnaturlige hændelser, som Ray aldrig havde turde drømme om
En baseballspiller må opgive sin professionelle karriere på grund af personlige problemer, men en ung mand med Downs syndrom, som arbejder i det lokale supermarked, giver ham nyt håb og tro på livet.
Hvad gør man som et mindre hold i en sportsverden fyldt med velhavende klubber, der sidder på både titlerne og de bedste spillere? For Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), den altdominerende direktør for baseballholdet Oakland As, som sætter hele holdet og skaffer spillere, er svaret enkelt - man ændrer selve grundlaget for tilgangen til spillet. Beane hyrer derfor matematiknørden Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), og snart begynder det udsædvanlige makkerskab at rekruttere oversete spillere med de helt rette evner.
Fences er et intenst drama, der hovedsageligt udspiller sig i og omkring det lille hus, hvor den sorte Maxson-familie holder til. Vi er i Pittsburgh i 50'erne, og der er store spændinger mellem familiefaderen Troy (Denzel Washington) og hans søn, Cory, da denne pludselig får en karrieremulighed, hans far aldrig fik. Imens forsøger moderen i familien, Rose, at holde sammen på det hele.
Hun var kaptajn for USA's softball-landshold i ti år, men som 31-årig er Lisa Jorgenson kasseret som sportsstjerne og må til at finde et nyt ståsted. Hendes kæreste, Manny, er kvik til at kaste bolde og ikke så meget andet. Men så render hun på finansmanden George, hvis karriere er på vej ned i kloakken. Måske er Lisa bedre tjent med et kejtet, men sødt slipsedyr end en dum, blond baseballspiller?
Hvad nu, hvis du kunne rejse tilbage i tiden og ændre bare en enkelt begivenhed? Hvad ville du så lave om? For John Sullivan er der ingen tvivl. Han ville ændre de begivenheder, der 12 oktober 1969 ledte til, at en voldsom ildebrand tog den højt dekorerede brandmand og hans højt elskede far, Frank Sullivans, liv. John har aldrig rigtigt overvundet faderens død. Hans ægteskab går ikke særligt godt, hans arbejde som kriminalbetjent virker indholdsløst og alt i alt er der ikke noget, der rigtigt fungerer.
Under 2. verdenskrig er mændene væk og det giver plads til kvinder. Også inden for baseball, hvor søstrene Dottie og Kit bliver rekrutteret til et nyt hold, der trænes af den afdankede Jimmy. Efterhånden som Jimmy bliver mere ædru og pigerne mere målrettede opnår holdet et niveau, der forbavser de fleste.
Da baseball-stjernen Billy Chapel går på banen til sæsonfinalen, er det med ryggen mod muren. Fra toppen kan det kun gå nedad, og Billy har lige fået at vide, at han er til salg. Samtidig har hans kæreste gennem fem år gjort det forbi. Under kampen tænker han tilbage på sin karriere og sin kærlighed. Er det altsammen slut, eller har han chancen for at vende det hele, hvis han spiller den perfekte kamp, som alle spillere drømmer om?
En historie om en gammel talentspejder indenfor baseball, hvis syn langsomt har udviklet sig mod blindhed. Før han trækker sig tilbage, vil han dog gøre ét sidste forsøg på at finde den næste store stjernespiller og tager derfor sin datter Adams med til Atlanta, hvor et usædvanligt ungt talent har gjort sig særligt bemærket.
Til trods for uhæmmet racisme fra alle kanter skrev holdejer Branch Rickey sig i 1947 ind i historiebøgerne med en professionel kontrakt med den afro-amerikanske baseballspiller Jackie Robinson. Med sit store mod og talent vandt Robinson både fans og holdkammeraters respekt, og det lykkedes ham at lukke munden på kritikerne og samtidig bane vejen for andre. Brian Helgeland (Payback) har skrevet og instrueret.
Den alt andet end atletiske trio beslutter sig for at lægge barndommens ydmygelser fra idrætstimerne bag sig en gang for alle og udfordre sportsidioterne. Med hjælp fra træneren Mel gør de sig klar til at møde de hårdeste hold i lilleputligaen. Nørderne er trætte af at sidde på udskiftningsbænken – nu tager de revanche!
Shikichi og Tomi forlader deres landsby for at besøge deres voksne børn i Tokyo: Koichi, som er læge med egen praksis, og Shige, som driver en skønhedssalon. Selvom de ikke ses ofte, virker børnene ikke ovenud begejstrede for forældrenes besøg. I et travlt storbyliv har de ikke engang tid til at vise dem rundt i byen. Den eneste, der tager sig tid til forældrene, er Noriko, deres afdøde søns kone.
En forældreløs dreng med hukommelsestab bliver fundet i en skov. Han tages i pleje hos et barnløst ægtepar, der undrer sig over den 10-åriges ekstremt højt udviklede intelligens og evner. Da han føres bort til et laboratorium, går det op for plejeforældrene, at Daryl er halvt menneske og halvt robot med mikrochiphjerne! Selvfølgelig står militæret bag, og de agter at bruge ham som et farligt våben.
Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all the hardships he had to endure he keeps on running towards his goal at full speed.
Shigeno Daigo is an elementary student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student, Sato Hikaru, whose father is Sato Toshiya, a former Major League player and Goro's close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!
Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students living in the same house. To make the matter worse, that day while she was taking a bath, Takasugi Yusaku, one of those boys, came into the bath and saw her naked. This is how Kasumi's troublesome high school days started. (Source: AniDB)
Twins Kazuya and Tatsuya, and their neighbor Minami have played together since they were children and built an unbreakable bond. But with puberty, the twins realized something: Minami is a girl, and three is a crowd. As the trio tries to preserve their relationship, Kazuya's pledge to make Minami's dream come true by taking her to Koshien with his baseball pitching skills makes the slackerish Tatsuya wonder about himself, and his own goals. But Minami has another dream she wants fulfilled, and as the twins continue to push themselves, with Minami in the middle, a life-changing tragedy leads one twin down a path he once never would've considered...
Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien stadium, where only the best teams get the opportunity to play.
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.
Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
Although the city of Fukuoka might look relatively peaceful at first glance, in actuality it houses a thriving mixture of dangerous individuals such as killers, detectives, and professional revenge seekers right beneath its surface. Among their number is Zenji Banba, a laidback and observant detective who is investigating the work of other hitmen companies in the area. However, Banba might not be the only one with a bone to pick with these organizations, as Xianming Ling, a crossdressing male hitman in the employ of one such company begins getting fed up with his lack of jobs and pay. One day, after Ling's current target commits suicide before the hitman could reach him, his company refuses to pay him even half the amount they were originally supposed to for the assassination. Frustrated, Ling requests another mission and is offered the job of taking out Banba, whom his organization believes has been interfering with their business. However, when Banba arrives at his home and finds the hitman inside, Ling surprisingly doesn't even attempt to kill him. Instead, he offers the detective another option: to join him and form a team. With the offer on the table, exactly how will Banba respond, and just what plans does Ling have in store for the underground world of Fukuoka?
Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher. Although unwilling at first, Mihashi realizes that this is a place where he will be accepted for who he is; with help from the catcher Takaya Abe, he starts to have more confidence in his own abilities. Abe, seeing the potential in Mihashi, makes it a goal to help him become a pitcher worthy of being called an ace.
Amateur baseball players go up against legendary pros in a championship to determine the ultimate winning team.
Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion for the team. One day, Seung Su is appointed as a general manager. Although he's been working in the sports field, the teams he led to the championship were unpopular, and some of them were even disbanded after winning the league due to the financial difficulties of their parent companies. Would this unlucky new general manager be able to steer Dreams to the championship with passionate Se Young?
Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Kō's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Kō; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. When Kō enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High School Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's dream come true.
In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After Junior High, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club. There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catchball with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her Junior High years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!" Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again... The story of the girls who love baseball will begin!
The series follows the romantic and professional trials of an aspiring nurse and two baseball players as they strive for their love and dreams.
When Arihara Tsubasa enters Rigahama Municipal High School and learns that it has no baseball club, she starts up the Girls' Baseball Club on her own. Drawn to the club are girls who have never played baseball before, girls who once played it but quit, and girls who are constantly tackling great challenges. The Rigahama Girls' Baseball Club races through the trials of youth, periodically clashing and quarreling, but supporting each other all the way! And so begins the hottest summer the world has ever known...
Takumi Harada is an extremely gifted baseball pitcher. Upon entering junior high school, Takumi moves to a town situated in the mountains due to his father's job transfer. There, he meets a new classmate Go Nagakura, a catcher who is able to get Takumi's most powerful pitches. Takumi and Go both join the school's baseball team where they develop a firm friendship and grow as individuals through their battery.
This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to insure that he is better than they are.
A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.
In 1925 (year 14 of the Taishō period), after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when searching members, getting permission from their parents and when learning about the sport itself.
