![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect that it will not get great reviews - there is not a lot of complexity and brooding and foreboding, no sex, violence or cursing, etc. I was wondering how they were going to deal with the basic problem of making a feel-good ending out of a pretty lousy set of circumstances, and I really thought they did it well. The baseball sequences are well done, and very realistic to Little League experience. The producers decided to cast baseball players and teach them to act, rather than trying to teach actors to play baseball. That notwithstanding, I very much enjoyed it. So I admit to a little bias when I see some people I know in the movie. In coach Bracey's bottom of the sixth pep talk in the championship game with the Cubans, his "Kick their butts" exhortation is cut.Īs a former Little League dad and Little League coach, I was curious about the movie, particularly because part of it was filmed in our home town. Prater's girl friend driving a BMW that is a lot better than his wife's is cut. Prater about the false identification papers he supplied Tripp Spence (46:35), the bit about Mr. In the scene where IRS agent Seeger interrogates Mr. Cut from the coaches' bed check scene at 44:24 is the coaches talking about not having blocked X-rated channels from the boys' room and Griff's hastily switching channels to an ESPN news story on the Cuban team when the coaches knock on the door the remixed scene looks as if the boys are watching the news story all along while the coaches want them to be concentrating on the upcoming Regional game against Reno Central (although their eyes are unusually wide for watching a news story). The 2007 DVD anamorphic wide screen version from Feature Films For Families is 103:52 to the end of the credits - it is essentially the 2005 DVD version with a 00:29 Feature Films For Families logo clip added at the beginning, and 00:52 of the feature edited out for morality reasons. The 2005 DVD anamorphic wide screen version from Anchor Bay is 104:15 to the end of the credits. The original theatric release was 90 minutes long. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
June 2023
Categories |