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    Million Dollar Arm

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    I LOVE BASEBALL and can recall some dandy baseball films. Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are five actors of this day to have appeared in MAJOR baseball films like THE NATURAL and the true life FEMALE BASEBALL film A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN about those great women who formed a women's league while the men were fighting during World War II. That was one hell of a Penny Marshall masterpiece that starred GINA DAVIS, ROSIE O'DONNELL and MADONNA in one of her very best screen performances along with Manager Tom Hanks. This years " 42 " the true inspiring film of the super-great Jackie Robinson might not be a masterpiece but it is most enjoyable and what is more IT STICKS TO THE FACTS without embellishing one single incident. Jackie Robinson was a born leader who just happened to be a man of colour and thus barred from the game. Manager Branch Rickey ( FORD) decides enough is enough and makes Jackie the first black player ever in the Major Leagues. Mr. Robinson so deserves to be in THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME. He also led the BROOKLYN DODGERS to finally win THE WORLD SERIES before the Dodgers moved to become the LOS ANGELES DODGERS in roughly 1956. But great baseball films have always existed especially the 1942 (no I was not born in that era) PRIDE OF THE YANKEES with Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright portraying the heartbreaking story of Lou Gherig who had to leave his beloved Yankees when still a major star. The illness he had is now most often referred to as Lou Gherig's Disease. Much later, Anthony Perkins delivers a stupendous performance as a true life pitcher who suddenly loses his nerve on the mound (1950's) The Babe Ruth Story from 1948 was just a formula film to cash in on then still famous Babe Ruth who died that same year, I believe. Will anyone ever forget the antics of gorgeous Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner in that MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL film Bull Durham, one of the most enjoyable films PERIOD!.. baseball or otherwise. Then we have a whole slew of baseball trash movies made mainly for kiddies with the sole intention of raking in big bucks. The least offensive was ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD! With Million Dollar Arm we have a baseball movie but something a little more. The Jon Hamm character ( Bernstein) comes up with quite a hair-brained scheme to find pitching talent in the unlikeliest of places. I've got to hand it to the writers for coming up with an awesomely wicked theme for a baseball movie. One can't say much more or the plot will be given away. Remember I said this is a baseball movie but more... and that it is! We see that the most important things in life play a much more valuable role than just finding great baseball stars. This is an ideal family film despite the use of some so so language. But, let's be honest, what kid hasn't heard and used fowl language in this day and age. They've seen and heard it all!

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    pietroantoni@  6.10.2014 age: 36-49 14,540 reviews

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