Great Date Flick

Rating: 7/10 (19 September 1999)

"For the Love of The Game" was perhaps the greatest "date-movie" I've ever found. Around the time the gooey "relationship flashbacks" began to lose and annoy me, POUF, we were once again set in the quest of Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) to throw a perfect game (and ONLY Kevin Costner could've pulled this role off!). The baseball (ME!) and relationship (My Girlfriend,Darlene!) elements balanced each other fairly well, and we both ended up with tears at some point. My criticism would've been that the film focused too much on the relationship between Billy Chapel and Jane, and not enough on Billy's relationship with Baseball.
Natch, Darlene's reaction was the mirror-opposite of mine.
Bottom-line: Guys?? If you HAVE to submit to a chick-movie on occasion?? Pick "For The Love of The Game," simply because you'll at LEAST be entertained during the baseball scenes. And the romantic parts??
Well, like I said, the BASEBALL parts are awesome!
Great "COMPROMISE" film!!!