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Crazy P @RT75776803 4d Goofy baseball movie yet tolerable. A little predictable yet enjoyable baseball entertainment See more Mike N @MYC_mike Mar 2 Personally I think Little Big League is better, but this one is more entertaining and comedic. See more Dominic F @Dominic299 Feb 24 Me and my mom saw this movie and she thought it was the best and so did I. My favorite part is when he says you want to show me up Henry! My mom hated the guy that chocked on sun flower seeds See more Lincoln B. @SpiderFan32 Feb 22 Sorry, it’s just not a good movie. The main character had very little personality and it wasn’t funny. I love an 80’s-90’s comedy but the brilliance of movies like The Sandlot, The Naked Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Field of Dreams is absent. I did think the plot line with the mom was cute and Rocket was fun at times but the other 70% of the movie is stuffed with cheap fluff that’s just stupid. Daniel Stern’s character is extremely annoying (there is such a thing as overacting). At times, the friends are fun but those times aren’t frequent. Well not unwatchable but really only just a cheesy, somewhat entertaining, to kill 2 hours. See more Amanda G. @Outofthepark24 Jan 11 What’s with all the heat of the year is the best I also love all the Pepsi’s because I love Pepsi’s, and Henry Rowan Garner great last name See more Joey H. @Joeyhubb1989 Aug 11 Released on July 7th, 1993, directed by actor and comedian Daniel Stern; with a score composed by Bill Conti, and co-edited by future director Raja Gosnell; Rookie of the Year tells the story of a young boy named Henry Rowengartner, who loves baseball and gets to live out his dream of playing in the Major Leagues and helping his hometown team achieve the impossible. Henry Rowengartner is an average 12 year old boy from Chicago living an average life. He goes to school, plays Little League despite being not great at it, hangs with his two best friends George and Clark, is starting to notice girls; particularly a fellow student named Becky Fraker, and has a great relationship with his mother Mary, although he strongly dislikes her current boyfriend Jack Bradfield. One day at school, while attempting to catch a fly ball and hopefully impress Becky, Henry slips and falls on another baseball and ends up being put in a cast with a broken shoulder. Once his shoulder heals, Henry finds to his astonishment that he can pull his arm down with incredibly fast and great force. Later that day while attending a Chicago Cubs game in the bleacher section, a string of events allows Henry to throw back an opposing team’s home run ball, which he manages to throw from the bleachers all the way to home plate, astonishing everyone in attendance and on the field. The next thing Henry knows, he’s being recruited by the Cubs to be their new ace pitcher, which the owners of the team think and hope might help increase waning attendance and perhaps even help the struggling team make their way to the World Series. As the rest of baseball season goes on, Henry must find a way to balance between being a Major League star and still being a regular kid. Starring Thomas Ian Nicholas as Henry Rowengartner; Gary Busey as Chet “Rocket” Steadman; Amy Morton as Mary Rowengartner; Albert Hall as Sal Martinella; Eddie Bracken as Bob Carson; Dan Hedeya as Larry Fisher; Bruce Altman as Jack Bradfield; Robert Hy Gorman as Clark; Patrick LaBreque as George; Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine as Becky Fraker, John Candy as Cliff Murdoch, and Daniel Stern himself as Phil Brickma; and released at a time when sports films were being released to theaters by the bushel, this film is a heartwarmingly fun family sports comedy guilty pleasure. Being a Chicago born native myself, this is one baseball movie I always look forward to watching and is my second favorite baseball movie of all time. Filled with memorable quotes and plenty of heart, I give this film a solid 10/10 rating. See more Read all reviews

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