Movies and TvShows featuring "unfulfilled-dream" theme.

In "The Rookie," a high school science teacher from Texas causes a stir when he makes a deal with his students: if the high school baseball team makes the playoffs, he will try out for a major league baseball team. Against all odds, he ends up fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a professional baseball player.

Now, Voyager is a 1942 drama/romance film about a spinster named Charlotte Vale who suffers from insecurity and emerges from a nervous breakdown transformed after receiving counseling from a psychiatrist. She embarks on a cruise where she finds love and learns to assert herself against her domineering mother.

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.

It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes while she works part time in a manga store, she lives with her older, gambler brother after her father's death. When the mother she never knew turns up out of nowhere and moves in, it only causes irritation for the aspiring otaku. But when her mother just as quickly disappears, it leaves Mugiko (or "Sweet Pea") searching for answers, bringing her back to her mother's hometown to discover what happened to her mother's own dream.

Saturday's Children tells the story of a group of individuals living in New York City who are facing various challenges in their personal and professional lives. The movie explores themes of love, ambition, and the complexities of human relationships.

After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.

Pake has left a good paying job working in the oil fields of Texas in order to give the music business a try. Eventually he finds himself alone and with no money in a hotel room in Los Angeles. He sets up a meeting with his old girlfriend Kay. When he meets her, she is with her fiancee. He is a Greek immigrant who desperately needs to marry Kay in order to become a permanent resident in this country. However his plans are in trouble because of Pake trying to convince Kay to go back to Texas with him and get married.