Best Sports Betting Movies
Welcome to our collection of reviews for the best sports betting movies of all time.
Here is where we’ll dive deep into classic wagering films and explore the gambling elements involved, and in doing so, stray off the beaten path of regurgitated inclusions from top ten sports betting movie lists that populate inferior websites around the net.
Here, we'll be concentrating on movies that focus on the complete spectrum of sportsbook operations, including entertainment betting and prop bets on fictional real-life scenarios.
This list will include movies that were featured atop the odds at legal Academy Awards betting sites, as well as cult classics that contain elements of sports betting as a part of their plot.
Sports Betting Movie Reviews
Great Sports Betting Movies: Smokey And The Bandit (1977)
Burt Reynolds was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood between the years of 1978 and 1982. This impressive five-year streak was no doubt caused by the overwhelming success of Smokey and the Bandit, released theatrically in 1977. The film came in second in box office revenue for 1977 behind Star Wars...
Great Sports Betting Movies: Kingpin (1996)
Kingpin (1996) is a mid-90s comedy classic that was one of the first movies to utilize gross-out humor, a tactic that began to take hold following the release of 1999's American Pie. It is the story of a bowler named Roy Munson, played by Woody Harrelson, who decides to join...
Great Sports Betting Movies: Vanishing Point (1971)
Vanishing Point is the story of Kowalski, a mysterious man with a sordid past who now finds himself on a cross-country mission where what's at stake and why slowly become evident over the course of the film's running time. Released just two years following Easy Rider, Vanishing Point is one...
Greatest Sports Betting Films: The Best Super Bowl Movies
While the Super Bowl may be the most-watched event on the sports calendar each year, there are not many significant movies involving the big game as a major component of the plot. In advance of the NFL Playoff betting beginning this weekend, we've provided some of our top suggestions for...
Great Sports Betting Movies: The Hustler (1961)
While The Hustler is widely considered a top all-time film by Hollywood standards, it isn't one that comes up often when discussing the greatest sports betting movies of all time, and that's mostly due to the game involved - pool (billiards). Unless a major tournament is going on, the books...
Great Sports Betting Movies: Goodfellas (1990)
I know what you're thinking. You've seen Goodfellas a thousand times and not once is there an instance of sports betting amid the entire 146-minute duration. While sports betting is not a present plot element in the 1990 mafia drama directed by Martin Scorcese, the main character of Henry Hill,...
Great Sports Betting Movies: The Running Man (1987)
Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, The Running Man is part of a string of Hollywood blockbuster hits that Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in over the course of 1982 to 1994. The film is the story of Ben Richards (Schwarzenegger) who is wrongfully accused of murdering several...
Great Sports Betting Movies: Brewster’s Millions (1985)
Originally a novel penned by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, Brewster’s Millions then became a stage play and has been adapted for the screen no less than 13 times as of 2021. The Brewster’s Millions film adaption up for discussion today is the 1985 Walter Hill directed iteration starring legendary...
Oddball Sports Betting Movies: Little Darlings (1980)
In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, John Lennon was shot and killed by a “fan” near his New York City apartment, and Little Darlings was unleashed onto unsuspecting movie audiences around the globe. Little Darlings is the story of two young women, Ferris (Tatum O’Neal) and Angel (Kristy McNichol), who...
