The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.
Casts Jean Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Harold Gould, Dolph Sweet, Robert Emhardt, Philip Bruns, Robbie Rist, Anthony Cafiso, K.C. Martel, Hap Lawrence
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Kano
Freaks
NiNoKuni
You Gotta Believe
The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.
Reservation Road
The Elephant Man
Big
Field of Dreams
Mercy Rule
Rain Man
Chicken
My Annoying Brother
The Great Escape
Truckload
Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid
For Love of the Game
Frequency
Maria Montessori
Rocky Road On Channel Three
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Kano
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2014
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.Freaks
IMDB 7.8 | Jan , 1932
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.NiNoKuni
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 2019
Adapted from the video game series of the same name, NiNoKuni follows high school peers Yuu and Haru who must travel between two separate yet parallel worlds to help save their childhood friend, Kotona, whose life is in danger. In this magical quest complicated by love, the three teens will be tasked with making the ultimate choice.You Gotta Believe
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 2024
After dedicating the season to a teammate’s ailing father, a group of underestimated Ft. Worth youth baseball players takes its Cinderella run all the way to the 2002 Little League World Series—culminating in a record-breaking showdown that became an instant ESPN classic.The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 1996
When young computer genius Rudy inherits his father's business his avaricious uncle has him kidnapped and held hostage until the boy signs off all rights to the lucrative enterprise. Not wanting the uncle to control, a pair of corporate executives happen upon a youth who looks just like the missing heir. In hopes of keeping the business afloat, they substitute him at the board meetings.Reservation Road
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2007
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.The Elephant Man
IMDB 8 | Oct , 1980
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.Big
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1988
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.Field of Dreams
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 1989
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.Mercy Rule
IMDB 2.9 | Feb , 2014
In the midst of a challenging season, Cody Miller learns that he's not the best pitcher—or the best teammate. Meanwhile, Cody's father John is losing to an unscrupulous lobbyist scheming to take over the family business. Both Cody and John think their only option is to fight on their own. It's not until they learn to rely on friends, teammates, and—most importantly—their faith and family that they discover that their battles can truly be won.Rain Man
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1988
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.Chicken
IMDB 8.8 | Mar , 2023
When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother. When depression sinks in, her brother Emmett gets in her face trying to cheer her up and in doing so makes everything worse. But when Emmett is confronted with a situation at a baseball game where he is called a chicken, Sam rises to the challenge to come to his aid and is reminded of what is truly important.My Annoying Brother
IMDB 8 | Nov , 2016
A jailed swindler leaps at the chance to earn parole in return for taking care of his estranged brother, an athlete who recently lost his sight.The Great Escape
IMDB 7.9 | Jul , 1963
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.Truckload
IMDB 9 | Jun , 2025
Following a near-fatal traffic accident, Lizzie's moving out of her mum's care and back to London (or as Mum calls it, the city of death). But Lizzie's going to live.Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1972
A guardian angel agrees to help Willie Mays win the National League Pennant if Mays agrees to take care of Veronica, a lonely, mischievous orphan girl. Veronica makes Mays' life difficult, but when relatives show up to claim her after hearing that she's inherited money, Mays' heart softens.For Love of the Game
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 1999
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.Frequency
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 2000
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.Maria Montessori
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2023
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.Rocky Road On Channel Three
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2023
A man has a life-changing encounter with an otherworldly ice cream truck.