If you love baseball ...

Rating: 8/10 (7 May 2000)

Then you might love this movie. I sure did. "Love of the Game" received bleak reviews, so I wasn't expecting much. But I'm a big baseball fan, and it's likely that any baseball movie will turn me on.
I read in several reviews that this movie wasn't as good as Kevin Costner's "Bull Durham" or "Field of Dreams." I can't disagree, but that's like saying that some nice, new baseball park doesn't stack up to Yankee Stadium or Wrigley Field -- it's an impossibly high standard.
In "Game," Costner plays an aging pitcher trying to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. But while he's doing so, he keeps thinking back to his relationship with Jane, played by Kelly Preston. His flashbacks to important moments in his relationship with Jane are woven almost seamlessly in with the baseball action.
So if you don't like baseball, you might wonder why anybody would love this movie. But if you do ... give it a shot. You won't be sorry.