This is the kind of movie Frank Capra might have directed, and James Stewart might have starred in - a movie about dreams.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Caryn James
A work so smartly written, so beautifully filmed, so perfectly acted, that it does the almost impossible trick of turning sentimentality into true emotion.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Imagine: a pseudo-intellectual baseball fantasy loaded up, like a spitter, with seductive sentiment. You can distrust the mix, but still like the movie - and I do. [21 Apr 1989, Life, p.D1]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Michael Wilmington
But there's something missing, something tentative and uncertain. In order to pull off a magic trick, you often have to distract the audience with smooth patter, clever detail or indirection. And this movie tries to play it so pure and unabashed that we can see right up its sleeves. [21 Apr 1989, Calendar, p.6-1]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
Everything from time travel to melodrama figures in this whimsically daft story, a romanticization that tries your patience even as your tear ducts well.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
The movie may steal a base here and there, but there are no homers.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
To be honest, I started hearing things, too. Just when Jones was delivering an inexcusably sappy speech about baseball being "a symbol of all that was once good in America," I heard the words "If he keeps talking, I'm walking."Read Full Review »
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