Great experience!

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2002)

This movie is a welcome break from the salacious trash that has come spewing out of Hollywood in recent years. The baseball elements of the film are quite well done (Dennis Quaid actually looks like a real pitcher; although I wonder why he always pitches from the stretch), but the film is about much more than baseball. It is about relationships between families, across and within generations, and between coaches and players. This is a great movie that should win awards but more importantly should strike a chord with REAL people. In that sense, it is similar to another recent Dennis Quaid movie, Frequency. (I highly recommend that one as well but not for small children.) The movie-going public that mindlessly purchases tickets to junk and then complains about how bad movies are should take the time to see this film. It will be a rewarding experience.