Baseball or a Love Story?

Rating: 8/10 (28 September 2005)

There is a very fine line to whether or not this qualifies as a baseball movie or another love story. I remember seeing this on ESPN's list of the top 25 sports movies of all time and Bill Simmons, a well respected sports writer in his own right, completely shut it down because of the love triangle b/w Crash, Nuke, and Annie. This by no means should be a reason to discredit it as a baseball movie. Crash's relationship with Nuke is hilarious from its wild beginnings to Nuke's maturity and how Crash works on keeping his head straight.
Once you hear Kostner and baseball, movie fans tend to think of Field of Dreams right away and by all means they should. Do not sleep on this one though because even though its story is not as memorable as "Dreams", it carries a ton of hilarious moments and delivers a number of its own unforgettable scenes. For all you guys out there this movie is a perfect date pick because you can keep your girl interested with Sarandon, but still have the opportunity to see a hilarious BASEBALL movie.