
A brief, passionate encounter between an attractive woman and - a tennis ball machine. On the face of it, this 1975 short film is a breezy spoof on the tennis craze. But "The Tennis Lesson" also serves as a commentary on the machine age, in which human beings increasingly depend on technology to meet all their needs. Produced and directed by Steve Karp and executive producer Tom Gallagher.
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A brief, passionate encounter between an attractive woman and - a tennis ball machine. On the face of it, this 1975 short film is a breezy spoof on the tennis craze. But "The Tennis Lesson" also serves as a commentary on the machine age, in which human beings increasingly depend on technology to meet all their needs. Produced and directed by Steve Karp and executive producer Tom Gallagher.
1976-07-04
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6.5A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
0.0Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearance of Robert Metcalf, who follows her or them everywhere. This continues into their time at the country club, even interfering with tennis games. The two boys are constantly arguing, and Ann grows weary of them both, and after a knock down, drag out fight that destroys the Jordan garden, they realize she has fallen for an older man, Jack Gardner, an engineering friend of her father.
6.2Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away. Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he’s granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament…make that his final tournament ever.
5.7Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.
6.0Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the exploitation of bees at the hands of mankind. What will happen next?
6.9Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.
5.1An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.
7.7New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
5.0Inspired by his tennis champion father, Ryoma is determined to take his game to the next level and train in the US. But in the middle of an intense tennis battle to save his classmate Sakuno from dangerous villains, they somehow find themselves transported back to the past, just as Ryoma’s father is about to undertake his final championship match at the US Open – when he was mysteriously forced to retire.
2.6Beek, a 22 year-old statistics wiz, believes his Moneyball-esque skills can help rising tennis star Lois Kuzenkova win the U.S. Open.
6.7Twelve year old tennis prodigy, Ryoma Echizen attends the distinguished school of Seishun Academy Middle School with his eyes set on being on the regulars team of the tennis club, which the school is famous for.
10.0A comedic short film following the plight of a collegiate prospect.
6.2When economics teacher and new-in-town Liz challenges her high school students to create business plans, she has no idea that the class winners will actually start their own matchmaking service! Asked to set up her own profile to help them kickstart their careers, as well as team up with handsome tennis coach Ted to organize the school carnival, Liz must navigate the dynamics of this new school, as well as the algorithms of her own heart.
0.0Staying with an old friend in a new city, a former Olympian aims to let loose on his last day. All the while an important decision looms above his head…
6.9Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
0.0Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.
A washed-up tennis pro who, in trying to save a club in crisis and win his father’s respect, is forced to break a solemn vow and do the one thing he swore he’d never do: play pickleball.