Product: A League of Their Own (Widescreen Edition) [VHS] (1992)
Rating: 5.0
This movie is in a League of its own
Who would have thought that a movie about women playing baseball during WWII would have been this good? But, it was.Penny Marshall does a very nice subtle job of trying to relay what it was like for the women who played baseball back during that time. I liked how Marshall made the movie from a retrospective view of Dottie Henson(Geena Davis). It was nice to see the older ladies revitalized from playing baseball, and how it took them back to a happier time for themselves.The casting was first rate: Davis as Dottie Henson, Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan, Lori Petty as Kit, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Megan Cavanagh, Bitty Schramm, David Straithairn(sp?), Garry Marshall, and Tracy Reiner.I enjoyed the sibling tension between Dottie and Kit. It can be very difficult to be the younger sibling(Kit) when your older sibling(Dottie) is always outstanding, and tiresome, for the older sibling, when you are always blamed for existing by the younger sibling. Marshall does a nice job of dealing with this situation and Davis and Petty are very real as fighting, but loving sisters. They both want what is best for each other.You can see all of the women on the baseball team come alive as they realize that they can do anything that they set their mind to do.If you like anything directed by Penny Marshall, then you will be seeing her at her best. A League of Their Own is definitely in a league of its own.