The Sandlot
1993 Directed by David M. Evans
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A piece of paradise a half block wide and a whole summer long.
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair.
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"The Sandlot," with its honey-dipped palette and period design that evokes the mythic innocence of 1962, is a sweet and rambunctious tale of friendship, baseball, and the adventures that both offer. While not remarkable cinematically, the film is solidly made. Where it excels is in its characters and themes, both of which reminding us all of people we've known and places we've been.
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From beginning to end, the Sandlot is an incredibly sweet and lovable film. Even from someone who's not a huge baseball guy, it's so much fun being with these characters and watching them have all kinds of summer adventures. Some might complain that there's no big story, and that it's just a series of events. Well.....that's real life most of the time, especially when you're a kid. Maybe not a whole lot of life-changing, cinematic events, just you and your friends just goofing around. If I had one major complaint, it's that a lot of the supporting kids really just fell by the wayside and were incredibly underused. But luckily, a lot of the characters are very memorable. Even if it can be a bit hokey or cliched, it's still a great movie that pretty much anyone can relate to in some way.
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Fucking classic...
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"You're killing me, Smalls!"
I introduced this movie to my 9 year old daughter for the first time today, and she loved it.
This is one of my Top 5 baseball movies ever. The love of the game. The characters that capture the era. The exuberance and attitude and insecurities of the pre-pubescent male. It makes me long for the days I was that age and had some of the best friends and best times of my life.
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Most kids sports movies are all pretty by the books. You know everything that is going to happen before it happens. Despite that though they usually are all still pretty good. The Sandlot has something that almost all of those movies are missing though. Heart. Yeah it sounds cheesy I know but its true. It has all the heart in the world and more than any other sports movies aimed towards kids it allows the parents to feel like kids again themselves.
The Sandlot tells the story of a new kid in town who joins a ragtag group (as if there were any other kind) of kids who spend their days playing baseball. The biggest problem they have though is…
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YOU WRITE LIKE A…GIRL!
The Sandlot
Bottom of the fifth, two outs, two strikes, and a 9 year old standing over his chalk drawn concrete home plate, plastic yellow bat in hand, sunflowers in his mouth, and a chance to win the game. The 11 year old pitcher — going through his first influx of puberty is too distracted by the last hurrah summer skirts — winds up to throw the final pitch of the day, possibly of the summer.
Snap.
A picture perfect moment in the mind of a 9 year old boy. What happens after doesn’t matter. Win or lose, there is nothing more satisfying in that age than the concept of playing outside.
Enter The Sandlot.…
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Can't remember the last time I saw this the full way through (think I was under 10 years old), but man did it remind me of being a kid. I'm not a baseball fan, but still have fun watching this, since it's really not about baseball. Classic 90s kids movie.
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Just one of my favorite childhood films and it still is. Reminds me of getting all the guys together to play baseball games all summer long. And all the adventures you get into as kids. I remember my brothers and I didn't have a 'Beast' in our youth, but an angry Rooster if memory serves. But going to the pool, having that way too old goddess we all wanted to be with, sleepovers...etc etc.
This movie captures it all. Especially in the end when everyone begins to move away, as that is how life was for most of us.I think the cast of kids is amazing. Most get their moments to shine, minus the tall guy or the twins,…
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Neslikts, feins stāsts par jauniešiem, draudzību un mīlestību pret beisbolu. Bērniem noteikti patiks.
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This was one of my favorite movies as a kid, which is a little baffling because I didn't like baseball. I'm happy to say that unlike so many movies you loved as a kid, this one still holds up reasonably well and is a legitimate good movie. It's no masterpiece, but it's very nice at evoking the aura of summertime as young lad. There's a reason why this movie has something of a cult following, and it's not just because of the line "You're killing me Smalls!".
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Watched this one again on my son's request. He has good taste
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This was my childhood. The reason why I got into baseball so much. This and rookie of the year, and little big leagues. It was great.
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In my Top 5 movies starring kids
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This was my favorite movie growing up as a kid. I still love it now.
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A warm, nostalgic, and very funny movie. A classic from so many people's childhoods.