Do the films The Big Green and McFarland, USA both revolve around children playing sports?
The Big Green The Big Green is a 1995 family sports comedy film by Walt Disney Pictures starring Olivia d'Abo and Steve Guttenberg, written and directed by Holly Goldberg Sloan. It also stars Bug Hall, Chauncey Leopardi, and Patrick Renna. The film is about the antics of a soccer team consisting of a misfit group of small town kids who are coached by a teacher from England.
High School Big Shot High School Big Shot is a 1959 film starring Tom Pittman as Marv Grant, a smart high school student whose plans for getting a college scholarship are threatened by his alcoholic father played by Malcolm Atterbury, and his relationship with the most popular girl in school. The plot is remarkably similar to that of Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing", released only three years previous. "High School Big Shot" was featured on an episode of the popular comedy series "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Filmed in 1958 under the title "Blood Money", executive producer Roger Corman released the film as a double feature with "T-Bird Gang" in his first Filmgroup release.