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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   11,282 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Mike Rich (written by)
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Release Date:
29 March 2002 (USA) more
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Tagline:
It's never too late to believe in your dreams.
Plot:
A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
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Runtime:
127 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Malaysia:U | Iceland:L | South Korea:All | New Zealand:G | Sweden:Btl | Canada:F (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:G (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Canada:G (Ontario) (video rating: 2004) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | Philippines:G | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | UK:U | USA:G (certificate #38665)

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Trivia:
When Jimmy says to Brooks, "You know what we get to do today? We get to play baseball," it is a reference to a deleted scene, where Brooks tells Jimmy how his father said the same thing before every game he would play as a boy. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: While pitching toward the camera at practice at the gravel yard, you can see the ball never leaves Morris' mitt, and once you can see him drop the ball before "throwing" it. (This is done so he doesn't hit the camera) more
Quotes:
Durham Manager Mac: Jimmy, I just got off the phone with the big club. They're calling up Brooks.
Jimmy: That's great. He won't be back.
Durham Manager Mac: He respects you, and I think you ought to be the one to tell him. Being that you're going, too...
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Getaway: (#17.5)" (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Embryonic Journey more

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Respectable Movie Worth A Look, 1 April 2003
Author: timberline_thunder from Colorado

Usually I review a movie just after I've seen it, but the last time I saw this one was a full 2 weeks ago. Yet it still sticks in my mind and heart.

Baseball movies are inspirational by nature and seem to have all kinds of application to life (for example, my review of Field of Dreams). Jimmy Morris challenges the losing baseball team he's coaching to not give up on their dreams and has the challenge thrown right back at him. This wouldn't make for such drama if the majority of the movie up to that point hadn't been to show how Jimmy's own dream had been systematically dismantled. Such movies anyone can write, but when I found out it was a true story, it put the movie in a higher bracket altogether.

The conflict between Jimmy and his father is played very well by both Quaid and Cox. At one point or another, you can just feel coldness of the walls built up between them. They're reaching out (Hunter's baseball glove, Jimmy's asking advice), but can they ever connect?

While some might balk (sorry) at the presence of Hunter, Jimmy's son, I think the kid adds a lot to the film. Baseball is all about kids, anyway. And it's good to see a son who looks up to and believes in his dad. That phase is over far too soon for most fathers to enjoy it enough. I think the dream is as much Hunter's as it is his father's.

The theme of the Rookie is "never give up on your dreams." That's laudable. But the affirmation of the importance of families, even through broken relationships, as well as a clean script, makes this one that families can buy to watch every now and then. Disney surprised me with this believable, down-to-earth tale. I'm definitely picking this one up on DVD.

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