A lot of the reviewers on here really liked this movie. And I certainly grant you: it's a fun movie, and an enjoyable one.
But after having watched it again tonight, I was left with the feeling that it really doesn't have much of anything to do with baseball. Tim Robbins' character gets called up to the majors, yes. But we don't see any transformation in his pitching, any explanation or demonstration of how he went from a guy with no control to a guy with enough control to merit a call from the majors.
Nor do we get much sense of what it's like to be a minor league player, what it's like to live in that world, etc. (No, most of them don't get to sleep with the Susan Sarrandons of this world.) Her character is presented as quirky, and so funny. But we never really see what she sees in baseball, either.
Kostner's character, who has been kicking around in the minors for a decade, never expresses what that's like.
We get a lot of funny sexcapes, and that's all well and good.
But this movie really hasn't got much to do with baseball.
But after having watched it again tonight, I was left with the feeling that it really doesn't have much of anything to do with baseball. Tim Robbins' character gets called up to the majors, yes. But we don't see any transformation in his pitching, any explanation or demonstration of how he went from a guy with no control to a guy with enough control to merit a call from the majors.
Nor do we get much sense of what it's like to be a minor league player, what it's like to live in that world, etc. (No, most of them don't get to sleep with the Susan Sarrandons of this world.) Her character is presented as quirky, and so funny. But we never really see what she sees in baseball, either.
Kostner's character, who has been kicking around in the minors for a decade, never expresses what that's like.
We get a lot of funny sexcapes, and that's all well and good.
But this movie really hasn't got much to do with baseball.