20 of the Best ‘Final Games’ in Sports Movies

We’d have to double-check the relevant statutes, but we’re pretty sure it’s against the law to make a sports movie that doesn’t culminate in a dramatic final game. How else are they gonna end it? A person or team just becomes really good at their chosen sport and then goes on with their lives? Get your head out of your ass.

But not all sports movie final games are created equal. “This was on my mind after watching Hoosiers recently,” Redditor Nillavuh told r/Movies. “Although it’s a definite classic of a sports movie, man, the final championship game is incredibly lame. Just five solid minutes of slow-motion layups with no real emotional swings in the game itself. There’s got to be a championship game in a movie that lives up to the hype.”

They then asked, “Which sports movie has the most exciting championship game?”