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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 7, 1989 |
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.
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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.
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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]
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.
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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.
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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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