Product: A League of Their Own (Widescreen Edition) [VHS] (1992)
Rating: 3.0
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You wouldn't be too wrong choosing "A League of Their Own" if looking for a baseball comedy. Actually, it's more of a "dramadey," like a mixture of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "Pride of the Yankees," only with girls, girls, girls!WWII is in progress, all the boys are fighting, so a candy bar tycoon (Jon Lovitz, "The Benchwarmers" and, uh, "Happiness") decides to start a girls' league. He sends out some scouts who find Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell and Megan Cavenagh who all try out for the Rockford Peaches, owned by Walter Harvey (Gary Marshall, "Pretty Woman," the director's father).Tom Hanks plays the team's coach, former baseball great, Jimmy Dugan, sort of an alcoholic George Bailey.The film is entertaining -- it features the standard rivalries between teammates, and has some well-made game montages, leading up to the World Series showdown. It's a little too sentimental at times, but for the most part "A League of Their Own" is fun.