For Love of the Game PG-13

For Love of the Game
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 4, 2000
  • Originally Released: 1999
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Total Count: 93

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 43,511
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The baseball sequences are fabulous, not least because Costner looks and moves like a real player a rarity for actors in sports movies... But the love story, a five-year off-and-on affair, is little more than a sop to Costner's romantic faithful. Full Review
New York Daily News
May 8, 2014
For Love of the Game's earnestness seems itself like a desperate cry for attention. Full Review
Orlando Weekly
May 8, 2014
...Costner is intrinsically convincing as a star athlete, and it's pleasant to notice how he's been able to improve his work within his specific range...
Los Angeles Times
Sep 17, 1999
Rating: 2/4 -- This is no perfect -- or even half-perfect -- game. It's another movie where conventions are subbed for life lessons, where the emotions are cued by golden oldies and where the motivation (at least on the studio's part) isn't love of the game but money. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
May 8, 2014
Rating: 1/4 -- Vanity is one thing, but Costner's act is beginning to feel like a particularly self-righteous -- and tiresome -- form of pathology. Someone should tell him that an actor's job is to disappear into his characters, not vice-versa. Full Review
Baltimore Sun
May 8, 2014
Kevin Costner is back starring in his third baseball movie, and after those two box office home runs, Mighty Kevin has struck out. Full Review
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 8, 2014
...Raimi masterfully frames Costner's impressively accurate fastball and curve to convey the aging pitcher's intensity...
Box Office
Nov 1, 1999

Product Description:

Director Sam Raimi follows up his 1998 hit A SIMPLE PLAN with a movie that completes Mr. Costner's unofficial trilogy of baseball films. Told almost entirely in flashback, the film concerns an already legendary 40 year-old pitcher, Billy Chapel, pitching the last game of his career that also marks the end of what has been, at best, a mediocre season. Going up against the Yankees, Billy remembers, while on the mound, his failed affair with the woman he still loves (Preston). As the game unfolds and it becomes apparent that he's on track to pitch a perfect game, Billy begins to wonder if he can win her back, and if his ailing arm can make it through nine innings.

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  • Sales Rank: 6,127
  • UPC: 025192068423
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