For Love of the Game
First screened in January 2005 / Most recently screened in August 2020
Director: Sam Raimi. Cast: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Jena Malone, Brian Cox, J.K. Simmons, Bill Rogers, Carmine Giovinazzo, Greer Barnes, Michael Papajohn, Laura Cayouette, Christopher Cousins, Larry Joshua, Arnetia Walker, Mark Thomason, Steve Lyons, Vin Scully. Screenplay: Dana Stevens (based on the novel by Michael Shaara). Twitter Capsule:
Bloated and schmaltzified to nearly unreal degrees. Raimi his no feel for his bad script. Preston's hopeless.
VOR:①
One step up, if not sideways, from those "inspirational" God Is Not Dead movies. But is baseball? The downward arc across Costner's trilogy is startling.
