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The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. Baseball 5 of 25 jack elliot tom selleck couldnt cut it anymore in the majors and found himself in japan, where he was forced to learn the nuances and idiosyncrasies of. Jack eliot, played by tom selleck, is shown as a former productive first baseman for the new york yankees, but those years are behind him. Baseball 1992 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It depicts a tumultuous season in the career of veteran new york yankees first baseman jack. A baseball stars massive ego takes a big hit when hes traded to a japanese team in this comedy home run. With tom selleck, ken takakura, aya takanashi, dennis haysbert. Baseball 1992 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
Baseball 1992 a professional american baseball player whose career is on the wane, jack elliot tom selleck gets traded to the dragons, a japanese team. Baseball jan 10, 2015 in all honesty this movie looked very much like a major league clone judging by the title and poster, hell they even cast dennis haysbert who. Baseball is a 1992 american sports comedy film directed by fred schepisi, starring tom selleck, ken takakura, dennis haysbert, and aya takanashi. Baseball, i find that the movie aims at delivering the difference between two distinctive cultures. Westworld finale, pulp fiction, the angry birds movie, and more by kayla cobb. You should see it if you are a baseball fan or just enjoy a story about adapting to a new culture. Baseball 1992 fred schepisi on allmovie when hasbeen baseball player jack elliot tom. Although a onetime mvp for the new york yankees, jack elliott is now on the down side of his baseball career. Baseball nude scenes images and 4 videos including appearances from dennis haysbert tom selleck. The films plot surrounds a retired major league baseball player who makes a comeback at age 47 in order to attain 3,000 hits. Baseball might look like major league from 1989 and that sort of light sports comedy we have seen many times, but compared to the latter mr.
Baseball, tom selleck stars as jack elliot, a rebellious, hedonistic new york yankee who falls into a batting slump and is traded to a japanese baseball team. Baseball is that theres nothing much earthshaking about it. Selleck is firstrate, but the material is lacking and the execution uneven. Baseball is a hilarious baseball movie about a aging new york yankess sluggertom selleck, magnum, p. Toward the end of the movie when the dragons are facing the giants for the pennant, hammer is up to bat and get a hit. Selleck got on my shitelist when i found out he was a republican. In fact, the only pro ball club willing to sign him is the chunichi dragons in nagoya, japan. Jack elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends. Baseball is older than the movies themselves, and the first baseball movies featured wellrecognized baseball players as the stars themselves. Jack elliot is an aging american baseball player unsuspectingly put on the trading block during spring training in 1989 by the new york yankees in favor of rookie phenom first baseman ricky davis, and theres only one taker.
The character of jack, whose being sent to japan is the impetus for mr. In the movie, the baseball player jack elliot is a representative of american culture. And from the start, sellecks character is making a spectacle of himself, but with the help of his american. Baseball stars tomselleck, kentakakura, akatakanashi, dennishaysbert the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 49 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. I saw this movie before i left for school and i definitely recommend this flick from 1992. Trailer watch movie 9,412 views jack elliot is an aging american baseball player unsuspectingly put on the trading block during spring training in 1989 by the new york yankees in favor of rookie phenom first baseman ricky davis, and theres only one taker. Baseball is another one of those formula sports movies, in which the locale is changed but the recipe stays the same.
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