Baseball is the perfect metaphor the American Dream: effort = success, anyone can play, and winning is a metaphor for life.
The Last Season is a nice effort by Sean Astin. It is pretty much exactly what a good sports underdog movie should be.
The film about Norway, based on fact, a tiny town of 500 or so that produced team after team that went onto win the State Championship for High School baseball. When threatened with politics and closure due to lack of funding the team does what it knows best, goes in to bat for one last season.
Have to be honest though and say it's not as inspiring as it would like to be in places, it does hit some good home runs by the end, but overall it is a little too clichéd to really succeed.
If sports movies are your thing then you'll enjoy it, but I don't think this will become anyone's (Outside of Iowa) favorite ever movie.
It is a nice effort, and watchable, but as I said it ain't outstanding...
The Last Season is a nice effort by Sean Astin. It is pretty much exactly what a good sports underdog movie should be.
The film about Norway, based on fact, a tiny town of 500 or so that produced team after team that went onto win the State Championship for High School baseball. When threatened with politics and closure due to lack of funding the team does what it knows best, goes in to bat for one last season.
Have to be honest though and say it's not as inspiring as it would like to be in places, it does hit some good home runs by the end, but overall it is a little too clichéd to really succeed.
If sports movies are your thing then you'll enjoy it, but I don't think this will become anyone's (Outside of Iowa) favorite ever movie.
It is a nice effort, and watchable, but as I said it ain't outstanding...