Everyone's Hero (2006)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Directors:

Colin Brady
Christopher Reeve
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Writers (WGA):

Robert Kurtz (screenplay) and
Jeff Hand (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

15 September 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sport

Tagline:

No matter where life takes you, always keep swinging.

Plot:

A young boy named Yankee Irving finds himself at an extraordinary crossroads: He has a chance to be a hero...

Plot Keywords:

New York Yankees | New York City | 1930s | Computer Animation | Yankee Stadium New York City

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Nov. 20

8:00 AM

FX

Cast

William H. Macy	...	Lefty Maginnis (voice)
Rob Reiner	...	Screwie (voice)
Brian Dennehy	...	Babe Ruth (voice)
Raven-Symoné	...	Marti Brewster (voice)
Robert Wagner	...	Mr. Robinson (voice)
Richard Kind	...	Hobo Andy / Maitre (voice)
Jason Harris	...	Announcer (voice)
Jake T. Austin	...	Yankee Irving (voice)
Joe Torre	...	Yankees' Manager (voice)
Mandy Patinkin	...	Stanley Irving (voice)
Forest Whitaker	...	Lonnie Brewster (voice)
Whoopi Goldberg	...	Darlin' (voice)
Ritchie Allen	...	Officer Bryant / Additional Voices (voice)
Cherise Boothe	...	Rosetta Brewster (voice)
Jesse Bronstein	...	Sandlot Kid #1 (voice)
Ralph Coppola	...	Sandlot Kid #2 (voice)
Ed Helms	...	Hobo Louie (voice)
Ray Iannicelli	...	Conductors / Umpire (voice)
Gideon Jacobs	...	Bully Kid Tubby (voice)
Marcus Maurice	...	Willie (voice)
Amanda Parsons	...	Emily Irving (voice)
Dana Reeve	...	Emily Irving (voice)
Will Reeve	...	Big Kid (voice)
Ron Tippe	...	Hobo Jack (voice)
Conor J. White	...	Bully Kid Arnold (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rochelle Hogue	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Sondra James	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Matthew Laborteaux	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Matt Laborteaux)
Greta Martin	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Christie Moreau	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Sean Oliver	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Charles Parnell	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Dennis Pressey	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Robin Williams	...	Napoleon Cross (voice)
Tyler James Williams	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as James Williams)
Cornell Womack	...	Additional Voices (voice)

Directed by
Colin Brady
Christopher Reeve
Dan St. Pierre

Writing credits (WGA)
Robert Kurtz		(screenplay) and
Jeff Hand		(screenplay)
Howard Jonas		(story)

Produced by
Cheryl Abood	....	consulting producer
Morris Berger	....	executive producer
Stephen R. Brown	....	executive producer
Kyle Clark	....	producer (studio segments)
Jerry Davis	....	executive producer
Janet Healy	....	executive producer
John W. Hyde	....	executive producer
Igor Khait	....	producer
Christopher Reeve	....	executive producer
Dana Reeve	....	executive producer
Ron Tippe	....	producer

Original Music by
John Debney

Cinematography by
Jan Carlee		(director of photography)
Andy Wang

Film Editing by
John Bryant

Casting by
Mary Hidalgo

Production Design by
Dan St. Pierre

Production Management
Patricia L. Adams	....	production manager
Christina DeSilva	....	production manager: Los Angeles
Barbara Foerster	....	assistant production manager: layout
Kristen Hudecki	....	assistant production manager
Jason McKenzie	....	assistant production manager
Cheryl Murphy	....	post-production supervisor
Laura Small	....	assistant production manager
Stephen Sobisky	....	production supervisor: Interactive Design
Drew Tolman	....	production supervisor
Matthew Voynovich	....	assistant production manager

Art Department
Phil Allora	....	storyboard artist
Richard Chen	....	artist
Richard Codor	....	storyboard artist
Hye Coh	....	matte painter (as Hye Young Coh)
Ray daSilva	....	storyboard artist
Julie Eberley	....	matte painter
Greg Gibbons	....	matte painter
Willy Hartland	....	storyboard artist
Elizabeth Ito	....	storyboard artist
Avi A. Katz	....	artist
Naeim Khavari	....	storyboard artist
Angelo Libutti	....	storyboard artist
Christian Lignan	....	storyboard artist
Brian Mitchell	....	storyboard artist
James A. Mitchell Jr.	....	storyboard
David S. Smith	....	storyboard artist
Spyros Tsiounis	....	storyboard
Hank Tucker	....	storyboard artist (as Henry Tucker)
Robert Castillo	....	storyboard artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
Dominick Barbera	....	dialogue recordist
Scott Cannizzaro	....	dialog recordist
Marko A. Costanzo	....	foley artist
Rik Elliott	....	adr mixer
Mark Filip	....	sound effects editor
Sean Garnhart	....	sound re-recording mixer
Sean Garnhart	....	supervising sound editor
Doc Kane	....	adr mixer
George A. Lara	....	foley mixer
Carol Lewis	....	supervising dialogue editor
Chris Navarro	....	adr recordist
Igor Nikolic	....	foley editor
Terry O'Bright	....	sound re-recording mixer
Bill Orrico	....	first assistant sound editor
Keith Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer
Mike Sawitzke	....	sound
Beth Sterner	....	sound editor
Steven Visscher	....	supervising foley editor

Special Effects by
Nadav Brill	....	special effects
Warren Lawtey	....	special effects supervisor
Harry Mukhopadhyay	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Belma Abdicevic	....	lead lighter
Jeffrey Alcantara	....	lighting and compositing artist
Michael Alkan	....	lead lighting technical director
John Anderholm	....	technical director
Tom Antos	....	visual effects supervisor
Ran Avigad	....	technical director
Ricky Baba	....	surfacing artist
Chris Bankoff	....	compositor: Reel FX Creative Studio
Herve Bizira	....	technical director
Dana Boadway	....	character animator
Mark Bodanis	....	lighting technical director
Bernard O. Ceguerra	....	lead lighter
Carolina Chen	....	technical director
Steven Chen	....	lead compositor
Yan Chen	....	head of production technology
Hye Coh	....	matte painter (as Hye Young Coh)
Shaun Comly	....	lighting and compositing artist: Reel FX
Phil Dakin	....	surfacing artist
Drew Daleo	....	cloth simulation
Cheryl Davis	....	digital compositor
Alexander Feigin	....	visual effects
Simon Fung	....	digital lighter
Mahsa Ghorbankarimi	....	lead lighter
Andrew 'Spanky' Grant	....	animator
Elizabeth Hauser	....	lighting and compositing artist
Jennifer Hendrich	....	rigger
Irit Hod	....	lighting artist
Benny Min Huang	....	set texture artist
Alwyn Hunt	....	lead texture artist
Isaac Irvin	....	lighting/compositing
Paul Jewell	....	visual effects
Scott Johnston	....	animator
Harout Steve Kahwati	....	cg modeler
Kevin Kelm	....	visual effects
Alan Kennedy	....	compositing supervisor
Michael Kitchen	....	character animator
Shelagh Kitney	....	animator
Manfred Kraemer	....	lighting technical director
Ronen Lanovoi	....	modeler
Kang Sub Lee	....	lighter
Shun Sing Edward Lee	....	lighting artist: IDT Entertainment
Roger Liu	....	lead character finaler
Greg Lyons	....	lighting/compositing coordinator
Scott MacKay	....	digital compositor
Omar McClendon	....	character final technical director: IDT Entertainment
Dennis McGrath	....	technical support
Paul McLennan	....	animator
Nikola Milosevic	....	lead lighter
Betsy Mueller	....	lighter & compositor
Christopher Mullins	....	animator: Reel FX
John Nesselrodt	....	lighting assistant
Mark Neysmith	....	modeling supervisor
Thai-My Nguyen	....	animator
Will Nicholson	....	digital compositor
Jorge Obregon	....	digital lighting artist
Jamie Oliff	....	animator: Reel FX
Jason W. Owen	....	animator
Patrick Pautler	....	modeler
Patrick Pautler	....	texture artist
Alex Poei	....	character animator
Sean Rivet	....	lighting and compositing artist
Allison Rutland	....	animator
Rick Sander	....	senior lighter
Scott Sanderson	....	lighting supervisor
Chris Sauve	....	animation supervisor: Reel FX
Augusto Schillaci	....	lighting director
Shervin Shahidi	....	character rigging
Sue Hyunsook Shim	....	character animator
Stephen Sloan	....	pipeline technical director
Gary Smith	....	render wrangler
Ryan Smith	....	lead lighter
Marc Souliere	....	rigger
Nick Starcevic	....	character animator
Anja Stitic	....	lead lighting artist: IDT Entertainment
Paul Stodolny	....	senior compositor
Sean Sullivan	....	character setup
Julie Terrell	....	lighting assistant
Rolph Thomas	....	senior compositor
Adrian Tsang	....	lead character setup
Archie Villaverde	....	additional modeler
Anne Wagner-Lopez	....	lead lighter
Ross Wallis	....	lighter & compositor
Aaron Webster	....	surface/texture artist
Daniel Wexler	....	pipeline technical director
Joey Wray	....	systems engineer
Dan Wrightsell	....	visual effects
Roded Yizhaky	....	senior compositor
Boogab Youn	....	compositor
Boogab Youn	....	lighter
Jeff Capogreco	....	modeler (uncredited)
Anthony Davis	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
Ken Mitchel Jones	....	technical director: IDT Entertainment (uncredited)
Jaideep Mohan	....	digital compositor (uncredited)

Animation Department
Drew Adams	....	animator
Stephen Barnes	....	supervising animator
Justin Barrett	....	animator
Peta Bayley	....	animator
Emily Beaulieu	....	animator
Mike Beaulieu	....	animator
Rob Bekuhrs	....	animator
Mike Chaffe	....	supervising animator
Regina Conroy	....	story artist
Ricardo Curtis	....	additional storyboard artist
Rahul Dabholkar	....	senior character animator
Tim Deacon	....	layout artist
Mike Dharney	....	animator
Mark Donald	....	animation supervisor
Rob Elliot	....	layout artist (as Rob Elliott)
Bryan Engram	....	animator
Brian Foster	....	layout artist
Shaun Freeman	....	animator
Kurt Futrell	....	crowd animator
Morgan Ginsberg	....	supervising animator
Ian Johnson	....	animator
Sebastian Kapijimpanga	....	animator
Tom Kloc	....	layout artist
Paul Kohut	....	layout artist
Justin Kupka	....	animator
Alexander K. Lee	....	animator
Peter Lepeniotis	....	supervising animator
Roger Liu	....	lead character finaler
Mike Lopez	....	layout artist (as Michael Lopez)
Eric Murray	....	animator
Ray Pena	....	character animator
Jean Pilotte	....	layout artist
Carol Prince	....	animator
Xavier Ramonède	....	animator
Rob Sadler	....	layout artist
Daryl Sawchuk	....	senior character animator
Limor Shani	....	character finaler
Jeremy Shaw	....	animator
Vince Sidwell	....	assistant character animator
Tim Sormin	....	character finaler
Benjamin Su	....	character animator
Glen Sylvester	....	animator (as Glenn Sylvester)
Oskar Urretabizkaia	....	animator
Louis Vottero	....	character setup
John Williamson	....	animator (as John D. Williamson)
Brad Willis	....	character finaler
Michelle Zhang	....	character modeler

Editorial Department
Matt Ahrens	....	assistant editor (as Matt Arhens)
Ron Barr	....	digital intermediate editor
Lois A. Bellucci	....	assistant editor
Robert Anich Cole	....	additional editing
Jason Fabbro	....	colorist
Adam Garner	....	first assistant editor
Mhairi Kerr	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Wolfgang Amadeus	....	electronic scoring mixer
Frank Bennett	....	orchestrator
Jeff Carson	....	music editor
Bryan Clements	....	scoring crew
Brad Dechter	....	supervising orchestrator
Andrew Dorfman	....	music editor
Mark Eshelman	....	scoring crew
Robert Fernandez	....	music score mix engineer
Tanya Noel Hill	....	music editor
Kevin Kaska	....	additional orchestrator
Andrew Kinney	....	orchestrator
Christopher Klatman	....	orchestrator
Chris Lord	....	assistant orchestrator
Greg Loskorn	....	scoring technician
Larry Mah	....	digital score recordist
Adam Michalak	....	score recordist
Melanie Mullens Hoyson	....	score production supervisor
Don Nemitz	....	orchestrator
Peter Rotter	....	orchestra contractor
Steven L. Smith	....	music preparation
John Ashton Thomas	....	orchestrator
Mike Watts	....	orchestrator

Other crew
Rob Aitchison	....	additional production staff (as Robert Aitchison)
Simon Chang	....	systems administrator
Cassandra Fauss	....	production coordinator
Neil Foerster	....	production assistant
Sara Geimer	....	production assistant
Kathleen Helppie-Shipley	....	head of studio production: IDTE Toronto
Greig Hutchinson	....	production accountant
Lars Kenseth	....	production assistant
Karina Kliss	....	creative executive
Laura Knight	....	creative executive
Sean Oliver	....	adr loop group
Geneva Peschka	....	assistant: the directors and producers
Eri Rubin	....	senior software engineer
Ilya Skorupsky	....	story director
Krista Swan	....	additional voices
Jim Titus	....	adr voice (as James T. Williams II)
Ryan Woodall	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Dan Krech Productions
• IDT Entertainment

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Falcon Films (2007) (Lebanon) (all media) (Middle East)

Special Effects

• Algo Bueno Management Cultura (dubbing project management)

Other Companies

• C5  post-production sound services
• Reel FX Creative Studios  additional animation production
• Soundtrack  ADR Facility

Also Known As:

Untitled IDT Entertainment Project (USA) (working title)
Yankee Irving (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

88 min | 90 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:G (certificate #42852) | South Africa:13V | South Africa:A | Singapore:G | Portugal:M/4 | Australia:G

Company:

Dan Krech Productions

Trivia:

20th Century Fox's first theatrically-released film to be rated G since Anastasia (1997).

Goofs:

Anachronisms: If the film is set in 1932, according to the Negro League Players Association, the Cincinnati Tigers were founding in 1937 and folded after their first year.

Quotes:

[Screwie has fallen off Yankee's backpack and is bouncing down the fire escape]
Screwie: My head! My butt! My head! My butt!

Movie Connections:

References "Batman" (1966)

Soundtrack:

The Best

Not as bad as it could have been

Everyone's Hero is charming kiddie fare. I didn't hate it but the story sorta screamed straight to video. However, for a film about a talking bat and baseball, I think I was a little more entertained then I expected to be.I like others thought the premise was a little ridiculous, but it gives the feeling of a Saturday morning cartoon where inanimate objects talk for no reason. Fair enough. The premise was still box office poison. Still, the film has some characters that aren't gratingly annoying, and of course the exaggerated one dimensional villains that you would expect. Aside from the lukewarm story, I was a little disturbed by some of the sequences involving young yankee irving in situations that are quite dangerous, aside from the realistic overall film. There is a looney tunes-esquire train segment where characters are jumping from train to train at full speed, and the end where yankee seems to acquire superpowers. Also, the very idea that he travels across half the country and it's kind of downplayed, it just doesn't mix well with the "you can do anything" theme of the film. It suggests to young children that they can literally do anything. It just doesn't seem like the best message to convey. Other than that, it's cute and not terribly original. The animation reveals obviously that this film wasn't done on an 100 million dollar budget, I think what they came out with matches the tone of the film. I'd recommend it to anyone with young children who enjoy baseball or for anyone who needs just a fun little film to pop in the DVD player to distract the kids for a little while.