In the early 1990s when the Chinese men's table tennis team is at a low ebb, head coach Cai Zhenhua is tasked with forming a new team to finally fight to the top at the 1995 World Ping Championship in Tianjin, China.
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The people behind it
Deng Chao
Dai Minjia
Sun Li
Wang Ying
Timmy Xu
Bai Minhe
Duan Bowen
Huang Zhao
Cai Yida
Gong Feng
Ding Guansen
Hou Zhuoxiang
Sun Xilun
Dong Shuai
Alan Aruna
Chen Wen
Wu Jing
Da Li
Liang Chao
Ni Xiaodong
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In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
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A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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