Customer Ratings & Reviews

this is truly a good classic movie and on blu ray what a price

If you enjoy a good sports movie, this is a must buy.

One of the best baseball movies of all-time!!!!!!!

A good movie, but some scences are far fetched. Hitting the cover off of a baseball, moon shot home runs. Please

Absolutely the best baseball movie that is not really about baseball that you will ever see. Strangely, the movie's ending, which is one of the high points of the film, is completely different from the book. In fact, it is 180 degrees different. Good thing, because the movie would have been nowhere near as enjoyable and spirit lifting had it stayed true to the book. This time, that was the right choice.

great movie that every baseball fan needs to see, mythic and fantastic

This is a great movie for not only baseball fans, but non-baseball fans will like it as well.

This is one of my all time favorite baseball films ever, the problem with this Blu Ray is that the packaging looks like the the new Director's Cut and even rings up that way, but this is really the the original PG theatatrical. Still a really good film, but if you're looking for the new cut, this is not it.

This is a film that needed no Director's Cut whatsoever, and this new cut actually did nothing but lower my opinion of the film. What's to expect? The film was perfect the way it was theatrically. If it's already perfect to begin with, then usually the only way you can go is down from there. Not only has the film itself been altered but the high-def image seems overdone, and the audio, much to my dismay, has been reworked in certain scenes as well. I've never understood this new craze for all these director's cuts we have floating around now. The bottom line is that the director isn't always right, and I can truthfully say that I have seen very few director's cuts that I actually preferred over the original release. Making a movie is a huge cooperative undertaking that involves the creative efforts of scores of people. They all have the same goal, to produce the best film they can, and within the time and budget constraints they have been given by the investors and/or studios. What you get when you're done is what you get. It is what it is. It drives me nuts when I listen to certain directors nowadays complain about how they wished things would have been different. Like how they would have done this or that differently, or how they didn't have enough time or money to finish the film, or they blame someone else involved in the production for hurting or slowing everything down...the only think I can think of is "Wow, that is a really bad director". It is a director's job to guide the production to its succesful completion on time and within budget. If they can't do it, then they shouldn't have signed onto the project. I'll bet every director wishes that they could go back and fix or change things they did when making a film, but the bottom line is that it is all a part of the creative movie making process, and just because something turned out differently than a director envisioned, doesn't mean they should go back and start changing things afterwards. Audiences generally like the film they fell in love with at the theater, therefore, if the audience loves it the way it is, why change it? And finally, just because the director wanted something done a certain way, doesn't necessarily mean everyone else involved in the production agreed with him, and in many cases it was a good thing those other people prevailed, because I have seen some awful director's cuts, and this is one of them...

The life of a baseball player is crushed by things from his past.