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Mr. Baseball (1992)

He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!

Director: Fred Schepisi

Genres: Comedy

Writer: Theo Pelletier, John Junkerman, Gary Ross, Kevin Wade, Monte Merrick

Runtime: 1h 48m

Release: 1 Oct, 1992

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Cast

Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Aya Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert, Toshi Shioya

Overview

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is. It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends international boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it. And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm. But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.

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