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Field of Dreams (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
$12.98
Delivered to my home very well packaged, I am pleased with the shape it came and I watched it and the disc was in great shape

Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team
$9.98
I bought this movie for my two nieces (11 & 13) who play soccer. The whole family watched it and absolutely loved it. Very inspirational.

The Dream Team
$9.99
This is a great classic comedy, with a good cast, especially Peter Boyle, who is one of my favorites (most notably from Everybody Loves Raymond).

Goal! - The Dream Begins
$19.99
I'll be honest from the get go. This is not a new story. It's the same rags to riches/Cinderella story, but with a football/soccer bent to it. Now depending on how the movie plays out, it could've been a very bad thing. But it wasn't.

Goal! is about a young man, Santiago Munez, who wants to play football more than anything else. When an ex-scout sees him play & notices the sheer promise Munez has, he instantly tries to get him scouted & brought over to the UK to play professionally. Unfortunately setbacks such as poverty & an unsympathetic father stand in Munez's way. It's only after his grandmother raises the money that Munez travels to the UK... and promptly fails the promised tryout. Luckily for Munez, he's given another chance but is unaware that some of the biggest hurdles have yet to come.

Like I said earlier, it would've been easy for this film to fail badly. The whole "average Joe makes good" thing has been done before in sports flicks. About 30 minutes into the film I couldn't help but think of 'Bend it Like Beckham'. But this film manages to pull off the Cinderella story spin well. I was able to relate to the character & I felt myself actually caring about whether or not he'd succeed, which is important for films such as this.

This wasn't the greatest film I've ever seen in this genre (Beckham is far better), but it really was a nice film & I can predict that this will be a hit with many football fans & players. I'm sure that there might have been tiny details that the savvy could point out as being incorrect, but for the non-savvy such as me, the film really was nice. (The ending was really the best part of the film for me- it was really heartwarming!)