Directed by:
Sam RaimiScreenplay:
Dana StevensCinematography:
John BaileyComposer:
Basil PoledourisCast:
Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Jena Malone, Brian Cox, J.K. Simmons, Carmine Giovinazzo, Michael Emerson, Michael Papajohn, Tracy Howe (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
It's the last day of baseball season at Yankee Stadium and 56,000 fans are wondering if 40-year-old Detroit Tiger pitcher, Billy Chapel, will complete what has been eight innings of a perfect game. But Billy has more than baseball on his mind today. Questions surrounding his life and career don't go down as easily as the eight innings of batters who've approached home plate. Does he end his career on a high note when he learns that his team has been sold to a corporation whose first plan of action is to trade him away? Does he let the talented and beautiful magazine writer Jane Aubrey board that plane and start her life in a new country without him because she hasn't room in her heart for him and his huge ego? Is Jane his true love? Has he ever truly loved anything but baseball? What will be his final pitch? (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (2)
Impressive thanks to Sam Raimi and Kevin Costner. The script is very average.
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I found this appealingly accessible, despite my having a slight aversion to baseball. I believe Kevin Costner's pained looks, John C. Reilly is the perfect partner, and Kelly Preston literally shines, but the running time is almost indigestible for a sports-family drama. After two hours, I was craving any form of happy ending, and with a few more minutes, the whole dramatic arc would have been definitively gone.
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