Major League

Name: Major League
Genre: Sport, Comedy
Released: April 7, 1989
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger

1989

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 7, 1989 | R

Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger

Summary: A baseball comedy about a squad of misfits - purposely assembled to tank so the owner can move the team - who rally together to bring the pennant back to Cleveland.

Director: David S. Ward

Genre(s): Sport, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 107 min

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Kevin Thomas

Ward directs his actors as adroitly as he has written for them, and the vulnerability that he allows his three stars to reveal is really what makes the movie work. No one, not even baseball fans, should go to Major League hoping for "Bull Durham's" sex, raunch and sophistication. But "Major League" has its own ingratiating charm. Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]

Major League lacks the subtlety of Bull Durham or the drama of Eight Men Out, but for sheer crowd-pleasing fun it belts one high into the left-field bleachers...Though the plot turns are mostly predictable, they are executed with wit and style. Read full review

Arthur Ryel-Lindsey

Comedy is the lasting virtue here—and more specifically what veteran screenwriter Ward (The Sting, Sleepless in Seattle) got out of a solid comic framework to make Major League continue to work beyond its odd collection of characters and a very specific setting. Read full review

Bill Cosford

Ward does manage to pump the film with tension in the climactic, will-the-Indians-beat-the-Yankees sequence, and I found Major League hard to resist in its last 20 minutes or so -- even though it's sappy enough to make Levinson's prettifying of The Natural seem positively dour by contrast. Maybe it's just the season. [7 Apr 1989, p.1]

Empire Angie Errigo

If you're looking for sophisticated wit keep going, but Major League is pleasant, undemanding fun and the most likely of the baseball movies to hit over here. You don't need to know what they're doing on the field, there are some amusing supporting performances, and everybody likes to see losers make a dream come true. Read full review

Caryn James

Major League trots out the standard formula, but has the wit to make fun of it now and then. The film is so loopy that it glides over its cliches and indulges in some congenial movie-baseball silliness. Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]

But this movie is no more interested in Cleveland than it is, really, in baseball: It doesn't have the passion for the sport's curiosities that Bull Durham has, nor the feeling for the sport's heartbreak of Eight Men Out. Watching Major League may be better than watching no baseball at all. But its place in the annals of baseball-moviedom is bush league at best. Read full review

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MovieReviewer80

Oct 9, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Truly one of the funniest comedies of what I have seen. Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, and Dennis Haysbert are as funny as ever. These are the funniest guys in baseball! If you have not, you should catch up on this movie!… Expand

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MarkTakayama

Oct 24, 2019

Major league is one of my favorite movie.I like the players.It's very inspiring story.This movie is popular.Hollywood made" Major League 2".It is not as great as the first one.If you like baseball, please watch Major League.

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FelicityFenwick

May 18, 2017

I was never such a huge fan of this film. Most of my friends liked it, but I just feel like it lacked a certain degree of heart or charm. It also felt so similar to bull Durham, that it lacked a degree of authenticity and originality. Of course I enjoyed the wild thing and all the crazinessI was never such a huge fan of this film. Most of my friends liked it, but I just feel like it lacked a certain degree of heart or charm. It also felt so similar to bull Durham, that it lacked a degree of authenticity and originality. Of course I enjoyed the wild thing and all the craziness that surrounded him but it wasn't enough to justify the movie for me.… Expand

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