The best baseball movie that doesn't just have baseball.

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 1999)

Kevin Costner is there to help convince us we're in a game where the stakes really matter. But this no perfect -- or even half-perfect -- game. It's another movie where conventions are subbed for life lessons, where the emotions are cued by golden oldies and where the motivation (at least on the studio's part) isn't love of the game but money in the bank.