Aaaaand it’s crunch time.

Finals week is coming, and that means you feel like the guy at the end of a radio commercial, trying to work faster than that guy who reads the fine print.

It’s a mad dash to the finish line, and a lot of us haven’t even started the race, but that’s OK.

The key ingredient to any successful finals week is inspiration. You’ve got to be inspired to churn out three 10-page papers in four days or take back-to-back-to-back finals.

And the best place to look for inspiration? Well, you’ve either got to find yourself a muse ASAP or head to Blockbuster.

That’s right, whether it’s Al Pacino or Gordon Bombay, from “Little Big League” to “Little Giants”, the best way to fire yourself up is to go straight to the game film. Check that, the halftime film.

Every sports movie has a turning point, when the good guys hit rock bottom and all seems lost. Remember the Giants were down 21–0 to the Cowboys, and the Hawks were beating the Mighty Ducks 4-2 in the third period.

And then came the comebacks, spurred by the words of Danny O’Shea and Bombay.

Bombay says to his team, “Ducks fly together, show me the flying V.” Minutes later Charlie Conway triple dekes his way to a Ducks win.

Kevin O’Shea’s little brother, meanwhile, reminds his team that anything can happen once.

One time is all it took for the Annexation of Puerto Rico, and that’s all it takes for you to pull a B- in financial accounting.

It can happen before the game, too. In “Little Big League,” 11-year-old manager Billy Heywood reminds his team how much fun it is to be major leaguers. It’s pretty fun to be in college too. Study up so you can hang around for a while.

The best pep talk of all time, though, comes from coach Tony D’Amato, played by Al Pacino in “Any Given Sunday.” The difference in our lives is in the inches, he says.

Pacino tells his players they are in hell (sounds just like finals week), and together, here he pauses, they will fight their way back to the light.

“The inches we need are everywhere around us … that’s the difference between living and dying [read: passing and failing],” D’Amato preaches to his team in a speech so moving you forget it’s the same guy who played Tony Montana.

Apply that inch to a margin somewhere, or look at it metaphorically. Either way, if Pacino can’t get you psyched for Gerontology 101, nothing will.

 Listen to his speech, and you’ll forget you ever needed Adderall. That, or you’ll just really want to play football.