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For The Love of The Game
The movie revolves around the Perfect Game performance of 40-year-old pitcher Billy Chapel as he flashes through his career and his relationship with his on-and-off girlfriend, while pitching his final game.
June 2, 1957 in Long Island, New York, USA
22 March 1938, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
23 April 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 June 1960, Tacoma, Washington, USA
14 December 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
15 June 1934, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1944, Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies
13 August 1953, New York, USA
14 July 1971, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
9 January 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
30 August 1974
1956, Columbus, Georgia, USA
May 08, 2014
Vanity is one thing, but Costner's act is beginning to feel like a particularly self-righteous -- and tiresome -- form of pathology. Someone should tell him that an actor's job is to disappear into his characters, not vice-versa.
March 29, 2011
Like Billy this movie is good on the field, but not so much once off it.
May 08, 2014
Far more horrifying than Evil Dead, Sam Raimi's attempt at making a sports-oriented romance strikes out, forfeits and loses three times before its two hours and 10 minutes are up.
April 13, 2017
Every scene away from the ballpark is in foul territory.
May 08, 2014
For Love of the Game's earnestness seems itself like a desperate cry for attention.
May 08, 2014
The baseball sequences are fabulous, not least because Costner looks and moves like a real player a rarity for actors in sports movies... But the love story, a five-year off-and-on affair, is little more than a sop to Costner's romantic faithful.
May 08, 2014
Kevin Costner is back starring in his third baseball movie, and after those two box office home runs, Mighty Kevin has struck out.
May 08, 2014
For Love of the Game asks whether the same qualities that make an athlete a champion don't also destroy his happiness. The answer, unfortunately, is long-winded and redundant... But some of the baseball scenes are good.
May 08, 2014
On the field, Costner is consistent, but his exploration of Billy's romantic dilemma is superficial and often wooden.
May 08, 2014
Those flashbacks will drive you nuts. As if baseball didn't drag on long enough, almost every inning or out of that Yankees game is punctuated by a memory.
May 08, 2014
Here are two things that definitely don't go together: baseball and piano music.
May 08, 2014
This is no perfect -- or even half-perfect -- game. It's another movie where conventions are subbed for life lessons, where the emotions are cued by golden oldies and where the motivation (at least on the studio's part) isn't love of the game but money.
