Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed...

Charlie Kenton, a former boxer turned promoter, seeks the opportunity of a comeback by teaming up with his estranged son to build a robot to fight in a high-tech boxing competition.

Framed by an ex-partner for a murder he did not commit, Tobey Marshall, a financially struggling custom-car builder and street-racer, spends two years in jail thinking about one moment. Fresh out of prison, he reacquires the fastest car his workshop ever built and seeks to enter a secretive and extremely high-stakes race known as The DeLeon. His purpose? Redemption, recognition from the world of racing, and a solution to his problems. Yet all that...

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.