First perfect game that I watched was Roy Haliday throwing against the Marlins, and watching him almost throw a second one in the ALDS against the Reds. They were beautiful moments. I was watching both of them at a sports bar, and the entire crowd for each was silent, erupting in emotion after each throw.
The way that they tell this story is actually pretty beautiful. This movie came out 5 years before Randy Johnson, at the age of 40, threw his perfect game.
But...the main characters in this movie outside of Heather and Gus, are literally just horrible people. Jane is so self involved that she has MC syndrome and that everyone else is an NPC in her game of life, including her daughter. Chapel is the exact same way, except for with Jane, where he will prostrate himself every chance that he gets for his mistakes and for her mistakes.
The movie does romanticize baseball as it should be, and frames the 'What comes after for players' in a beautiful way, but the intense focus on such a narrow part of a players life rather than the whole to make essentially a romspo (romantic sports) movie just fell flat for me.
The way that they tell this story is actually pretty beautiful. This movie came out 5 years before Randy Johnson, at the age of 40, threw his perfect game.
But...the main characters in this movie outside of Heather and Gus, are literally just horrible people. Jane is so self involved that she has MC syndrome and that everyone else is an NPC in her game of life, including her daughter. Chapel is the exact same way, except for with Jane, where he will prostrate himself every chance that he gets for his mistakes and for her mistakes.
The movie does romanticize baseball as it should be, and frames the 'What comes after for players' in a beautiful way, but the intense focus on such a narrow part of a players life rather than the whole to make essentially a romspo (romantic sports) movie just fell flat for me.