Tag: Baseball Movies

A League of Their Own (1992)

123 mins     Comedy, Drama, Sport      

A League of Their Own: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis & Lori Petty star in this movie about women's baseball during WWII...

A Winner Never Quits (1986)

105 mins     Biography, Drama, Sport, TV Movie      

I don't think it needs me to say it but "A Winner Never Quits" is two things; firstly a biopic and secondly an inspirational movie. Now I must admit I had never heard of Pete Gray before stumbling across "A Winner Never Quits...

The Babe (1992)

115 mins     Biography, Drama, Sport      

Not to be confused with the movie about a little pig "The Babe" was released back in 1992 and is a biopic about baseball legend George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, played by the lovable John Goodman. It's an interesting biopic because...

Bad News Bears (2005)

113 mins     Comedy, Sport      

The 2005 remake of "Bad News Bears" is probably the best example for my repeated argument about remakes, that argument is that they are not made for those who enjoyed the original but for a new generation which will think the...

The Bad News Bears (1976)

102 mins     Comedy, Family, Sport      

"The Bad News Bears" is a sports movie about Little League Baseball and like the majority of sports movies it is an underdog story and being about Little League Baseball it's an underdog sports movie featuring a bunch of kids...

Brewster's Millions (1985)

97 mins     Comedy      

Richard Pryor's "Brewster's Millions" is by no means original; it is one of many remakes of the fun story of Monty Brewster who has to blow a load of money to inherit a lot more....

Bull Durham (1988)

108 mins     Comedy, Romance, Sport      

One of a trio of Kevin Costner baseball movies "Bull Durham" is in fact less about baseball rather than the relationships between ageing catcher Crash (Kevin Costner), hot shot young pitcher Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh (Tim Ro...

Ed (1996)

94 mins     Comedy, Family, Sport      

Movie Review - Ed (1996) Matt LeBlanc stars as a baseball player who finds himself babysitting the teams chimp mascot, except the chimp is a better baseball player than he is...

Eight Men Out (1988)

119 mins     Drama, Sport      

"Eight Men Out" is the movie about the Black Sox scandal when then Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to intentionally throw the 1919 World Series, a series they were odds on favourites to win. Featuring excellent performances...

The Fan (1996)

116 mins     Drama, Sport, Thriller      

I have to admit I am a fan of sports movies, especially ones which revolve around baseball, so when, in 1996, "The Fan" came out starring Hollywood legend Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes I knew it was a movie I would have to...

Field of Dreams (1989)

101 mins     Drama, Fantasy, Sport      

Field of Dreams: Kevin Costner builds it and do they come in this fantasy movie about baseball and its legends showing up in a cornfield in Iowa...

For Love of the Game (1999)

137 mins     Drama, Romance, Sport      

"Clear the Mechanism" is what Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) says to himself as he prepares to pitch in what could be his last ever professional basbeball game and whilst pitching what could be the perfect game he reminisces ov...

Hard Ball (2001)

106 mins     Drama, Sport      

Something which always intrigued me was what would happen if someone took a much loved children's movie and then tried to update it into a grown up movie. Well having watched "Hard Ball" I now know as this is basically an upd...

Home Run (2013)

113 mins     Drama, Sport      

Movie Review - Home Run (2013) Scott Elrod stars as baseball star Cory Brand who after his latest drink fuelled incident is forced to take time out and attend a 12 steps programme whilst also coaching a little league team in ...

Moneyball (2011)

133 mins     Biography, Drama, Sport      

Moneyball (2011) Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane who to compete with the big boys of baseball broke with tradition and used data analysis when it came to players...

Mr 3000 (2004)

104 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport      

Here we go again, another movie which takes me back to the ball park and the game of baseball. In fairness the idea of "Mr 3000" with an egotistical player learning that he didn't make 3000 hits during his career and forced t...

The Natural (1984)

134 mins     Drama, Sport      

The Natural (1984) Robert Redford stars as Roy Hobbs a baseball player who shows up for his shot at the big time 16 years after disappearing when he was a hot young talent...

The Perfect Catch (2005)

99 mins     Comedy, Romance      

It's not often I get to watch a movie where I have no knowledge of what it's about or what others have thought of it. But that was the case with "The Perfect Catch" an American romantic-comedy which was released back in 2005,...

The Perfect Catch (2017)

83 mins     Drama, Romance, TV Movie      

Movie Review - The Perfect Catch (2017) Hallmark movie starring Nikki Deloach as Jessica, a small town diner owner who never left her home town, who comes face to face with Chase (Andrew W. Walker), her former high school swe...

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

128 mins     Biography, Drama, Sport      

I think the closest I have ever got to a baseball game, other than all the baseball movies I have watched, is briefly seeing a baseball diamond at one of the American Air Force bases in the UK when I was very young. As such w...