Has the feeling of a worn out, old baseball glove

Rating: 8/10 (11 May 2002)

This film has a lame soundtrack, a silly plot, and the sort of preprogrammed ending that feels contrived. Still, it is the kind of movie that you walk away from feeling as if it somehow summed up everything important in the world, as if baseball really were everything that mattered. Can we forgive the film's simplistic story in light of the multitude of subtleties that are left unspoken? I believe we can. This isn't the sort of tearjerker that will traumatize you for the rest of the evening. This movie is just like a game of baseball on a balmy afternoon.