Ron Shelton

Mike and Marcus reunite as trash-talking buddy cops. Bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of Cuba.

Joe Gavilan, a seasoned veteran, is charged with showing K.C. Calden the ropes, while investigating the gangland-style murder of a rap group.

Roy 'Tin cup' McAvoy (Kevin Costner), is a failed pro golfer who lives at the run-down driving range which he manages with his sidekick and Caddy Romeo (Cheech Marin) in the West Texas tin pot town of Salome. Roy ends up signing over ownership to a Madam Doreen (Linda Hart) of 'show girls' to pay off debts. Roy once lost his chance to become a professional golfer when he attempted a riskier shot for the final round of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament rather than taking a safer shot. Roy lost the qualification by one shot. Roy's foxy novice golf pupil, female psychiatrist Dr. Molly Griswold (Rene Russo), turns out to be the new girlfriend of McAvoy's sarcastic one-time college golf partner, slick PGA superstar David Simms (Don Johnson). Molly had spent over $200 on golfing accessories, which Roy calls unnecessary. Molly wants Roy to break down the process of golfing to her, but he says that Molly has to feel the game. Roy compares golf to a poem. Roy says that he has a short follow through which, some people say, indicates that he has never finished anything in his life. Molly is only trying to learn golf to share the passion of her boyfriend. Simms asks Roy to be his Caddy for a charity tournament (Roy once shot a 59 on the course, can still hit a 65 with his eyes closed. Roy knows the course like the back of his hand and the tournament has a $500K purse) & Roy takes it (As Simms promises $100 and 5% of his earnings). The offer is an insult to Roy, but he deep in trouble and has no other options to make money. Roy can't resist challenging Simms to a risky shot on the course. Simms fires Roy when one of the competitors asks Roy to take the shot that he had been proposing to Simms, and he makes it. Simms refuses to pay Roy any of the money promised to him. Roy is neck deep in debt & owes $2K even after signing over his driving range to the madam of show girls. Roy owed a debt of $12,000 and signs over the range for $10,000 plus a salary for him and Romeo. He even pawns off his golf set to survive. When he finds that Molly is Simms girl, he decides to win the US Open to impress Molly & win her back. He wins a golf gamble (for $400) using garden tools to win money to get his golf set back. Molly is a therapist, so Roy decides to ask Molly whether his strategy to win her is right. Roy talks hypothetically about another girl in his life & Molly asks him to take a risk & ask the girl out to dinner. Roy professes his love to Molly & she is stunned. Molly says that she cannot be romantically involved with a client. She agrees to be his doctor & help him qualify for the Open. Roy tells Molly that her boyfriend is a very negative person, and he hates everything and everybody, which she refuses to believe. In the qualifiers, Roy displays a tendency to take needless risks, just to satisfy his own professional esteem, without caring for winning or losing. He angers Romeo when Roy insists on going over a set of trees rather than playing safe and going around them with an extra shot. Roy breaks all his golf clubs when Romeo won't allow him to take the shot. Roy completes the rest of the course only with his 7 iron and qualifies for the sectionals. Roy even loses his car when he challenges Simms to hit the ball the farthest, & Simms wins it by hitting the ball onto the road. Roy again tells Molly that when the camera is not on Simms, he treats old people, kids and dogs like dirt. Roy qualifies & asks Molly to join him at the Open, which she refuses. Roy begs Romeo to join him as his Caddy at the Open, who accepts. Roy's swing develops a problem and Romeo thinks that the issue is Molly. Roy begs Molly that he needs her, but she continues to resist. Roy wants Molly to dump Simms and be with him. On the opening day, Roy gets the jitters at the Open Driving range & Romeo makes him realize that he only has to think about golf & nothing else. At the open Roy has a bad first day as he still has the Shanks and cannot hit a single ball straight. Simms comes around to gloat when he hits a 67 and Roy hits an 83. Molly realizes what Roy had been saying all along, that Simms is not a nice guy when the TV cameras are off him. She dumps Simms & has sex with Roy. Before dumping Simms, she makes Simms pay out $2000 on a bet in which Roy makes an seemingly impossible shot from inside a bar, over a fence, across a river to make a pelican fly off its perch at a pier, at the other end of the river. Roy has a spectacular day & makes the cut, but not before running into par 5 18th, & taking a risky shot for an eagle chance, & then hitting the water, to make par. He makes the same mistake the 3rd day & ends it at 7 under, tied for the lead with Simms. He is paired with Simms the last day & Simms keeps challenging Roy to difficult shots & Roy keeps taking them, falling behind in the scores. At the 18th, 3-way tie for the lead, same shot, & Roy goes for it to win it outright. He makes the green this time, only for the ball to roll back into the water. Roy takes the same shot 11 more times from the same spot, before he makes it perfectly. He loses the US Open, but his 12 on the 18th hole becomes a part of golfing folklore as the whole gathering gives him a standing ovation for making that shot. Molly & Roy are together. Back in Texas, Molly tells Roy that he automatically qualified for next year's Open due to his standing.

A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive. Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.

"Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner), a veteran of 12 years in minor league baseball, is sent down to the single-A (advanced) Durham Bulls for a specific purpose: to educate hotshot rookie pitcher Ebby LaLoosh (Tim Robbins, playing a character loosely based on Steve Dalkowski) about becoming a major-league talent, and to control Ebby's haphazard pitching. Crash immediately begins calling Ebby by the degrading nickname of "Meat", and they get off to a rocky start. Thrown into the mix is Annie (Susan Sarandon), a lifelong spiritual seeker who has latched onto the "Church of Baseball" and has, every year, chosen one player on the Bulls to be her lover and student. Annie flirts with Crash and Ebby, but Crash walks out, saying he's too much a veteran to "try out" for anything. Before he leaves, Crash further sparks Annie's interest with a memorable speech listing the things he "believes in", ending with "I believe in long, slow, soft, deep wet kisses that last three days... Good night". Despite some animosity between them, Annie and Crash work, in their own ways, to shape Ebby into a big-league pitcher. Annie plays mild bondage games, reads poetry to him, and gets him to think in different ways (and gives him the nickname "Nuke"). Crash forces Nuke to learn "not to think" by letting the catcher make the pitching calls (memorably at two points telling the batters what pitch is coming after Nuke rejects his calls), and lectures him about the pressure of facing major league hitters who can hit his "heat" (fastballs). Crash also talks about the pleasure of life in "The Show" (Major League Baseball), which he briefly lived for "the 21 greatest days of my life" and to which he has tried for years to return. Meanwhile, as Nuke matures, the relationship between Annie and Crash grows, until it becomes obvious that the two of them are a more appropriate match, except for the fact that Annie and Nuke are currently a couple. After a rough start, Nuke becomes a dominant pitcher by mid-season. By the end of the movie, Nuke is called up to the majors and the Bulls, now having no use for his mentor, release Crash. This incites jealous anger in Crash, who is frustrated by Nuke's failure to recognize all the talent he was blessed with. Nuke leaves for the big leagues, ending his relationship with Annie, and Crash overcomes his jealousy to leave Nuke with some final words of advice. Crash joins another team, the Asheville Tourists, and breaks the minor league record for career home runs. We see Nuke one last time, being interviewed by the press as a major leaguer, reciting the clichéd answers that Crash had taught him earlier. Crash then retires as a player and returns to Durham, where Annie tells him she's ready to give up her annual affairs with "boys". Crash tells her that he is thinking about becoming a manager for a minor league team in Visalia. Both characters end one phase of their lives and begin another, Annie and Crash dancing in her candle-lit living room.

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game. Jack Dundee is a meek banker living in Taft, California. He constantly thinks about the 1972 high school football game between Taft and powerhouse Bakersfield. Dundee drops a perfect pass from quarterback and friend Reno Hightower, and the game ended in a tie. He wants to replay the game, but has trouble convincing Reno and the town to replay the game. So Jack resorts to desperate measures to make the game reality. —Pat McCurry