Baseball Used As An Excuse To Make A Pathetic Sex Comedy

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2020)

I fail to see how people can consider this a sports movie, let alone a good one. Sex seems to be the main focus with baseball simply a backdrop.
This film presents little new. Baseball? How about "The Natural", featuring Robert Redford? A no-holds-barred view of a sports team? "Slap Shot" (with Paul Newman), made about a decade earlier did it better and much funnier. An older athlete mentoring a young up-and-comer? Take a look at "Fat City", directed by John Huston and starring Stacy Keach and a young Jeff Bridges, which shows that subject in a sombre manner.
"Bull Durham" was an earlier Kevin Costner movie and, frankly, I though most of them were dreadful, including "Silverado" and "Fandango". Fortunately, he more than redeemed himself in other films, such as "Field of Dreams" (which a different reviewer noted) and "For the Love of the Game".
Make a wide detour and avoid this stinker.