The Final Season

PG

Released Oct 12, 2007

1h 53m

Drama

List

25%

51 Reviews

Tomatometer

67%

2,500+ Ratings

Audience Score

Baseball rules in the small town of Norway, Iowa. Its high-school team is the winner of many state championships, and the coach, Jim Van Scoyoc (Powers Boothe), is National Coach of the Year. When Norway's high school must merge with another, he loses his job. Kent Stock (Sean Astin), who once assisted him, takes over the Norway team for the last season, but the odds are against Kent and the players.

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Critics Consensus

The Final Season recycles clichés we've seen in countless other sports movies, making for an unoriginal and uninspiring addition to the genre.

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Mark D

Enough cheese here to make a nacho! And that's not a good thing. For the life of me, I sure can't figure out how this movie gets a 6.5 rating on IMDB. Did I miss something? Usually a bad movie that gets a good grade is due to the friends and family of the filmmaker voting on it. And the films are viewed by a handful of folks. But this got a ton of votes. I just don't get it. That said, I have to say just about everything about this film is a cliche. The acting is just so so. The writing is dreadful. And the cinematography and score are barely passable. It's another of those films that I just had to stop halfway through and scream "UNCLE!!!" You've been warned. There are a ton of great sports movies out there. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

excellent movie about small town life and a great baseball movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

Sean Astin is brilliant. This is a great story of being remembered!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/12/20

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Audience Member

This sports drama was pretty good. Sean Astin and the rest of the cast did a great job in this movie. The story this movie was based on is true and it was quite inspiring. It's a movie about one last chance to do something great. People would probably enjoy this movie.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

best baseball movie i've ever watch..

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

Sports movies are my guilty pleasure, especially baseball movies. The Final Season is your typical baseball movie with some sort of an issue that effects the entire team. Its a pretty cut and dry film. It got bashed and has bad scores. But I love these movies, so if you love baseball and baseball movies as much as I do, you'll probably like The Final Season as well.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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David M. Evans

Director

Sean Astin

Kent Stock

Powers Boothe

Jim Van Scoyoc

Rachael Leigh Cook

Polly Hudson

James Gammon

Jared Akers

Michael Angarano

Mitch Akers

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Jennifer Preyss

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An exciting family picture, worthy of viewing, if only for the warm-fuzzy feeling.

Rated: B

Oct 20, 2007

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

Stereotypes are meant to exalt small-town values, but The Final Season is proof that it's hard to paint masterpiece in broad strokes.

Rated: C-

Oct 12, 2007

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Ted Fry

Seattle Times

Perhaps if Disney had gotten their hands on it, The Final Season would have gotten the spitball polish it needs.

Rated: 1.5/4

Oct 12, 2007

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Never has an underdog film been so boring, trite, and wholly uninspiring.

Rated: 2/10

Nov 24, 2020

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

The Final Season hits one out of the park!

Nov 16, 2019

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...manages to overcome the entirely underwhelming nature of its first act.

Rated: 2.5/4

Oct 3, 2008

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Synopsis

Baseball rules in the small town of Norway, Iowa. Its high-school team is the winner of many state championships, and the coach, Jim Van Scoyoc (Powers Boothe), is National Coach of the Year. When Norway's high school must merge with another, he loses his job. Kent Stock (Sean Astin), who once assisted him, takes over the Norway team for the last season, but the odds are against Kent and the players.

Director: David M. Evans
Producer: Sean Astin, Carl Borack
Screenwriter: Art D'Alessandro
Distributor: Yari Film Group
Production Co: The Final Season, Final Partners, Fobia Films
Rating: PG (Language|Thematic Elements|Some Teen Smoking)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 12, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.2M
Runtime: 1h 53m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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