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      For Love of the Game

      PG-13 Released Sep 17, 1999 2 hr. 17 min. Drama List
      46% 95 Reviews Tomatometer 75% 25,000+ Ratings Audience Score Forty-year-old pitcher Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is practically a dinosaur by professional baseball standards, fast approaching the end of his career. But, as Chapel stands on the mound pitching the game of his life, his thoughts don't turn to his prized history in sports, but rather return again and again to his tumultuous relationship with Jane Aubrey (Kelly Preston), a single mom who has stood at his side through the good and the bad but is now on the verge of leaving him. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered May 21 Buy Now

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      Baseball wins, romance loses.

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      Philip L Fantastic baseball movie and romance film. Kelly Preston is adorable and vulnerable. Costner does an excellent job. People that hate the romance of this film have no magic in their own lives. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review Demetris A WRECK IT. For the negative expert critics. This is one of the greatest sports movies. I teared all along. BUT Fans (or fanatics) are NOT humans; we are monsters! This sports movie is loaded with human factor. That why it got peeps confused! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/28/23 Full Review Narciso R I thought this movie was great. Loved it for several reasons. NRJ. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/04/23 Full Review Nate W Most underrated baseball of all time Kevin Costner as Billy Chapel one of his greatest and most underrated performances ever. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/28/23 Full Review Tim P If you love baseball, or don't, it doesn't matter. This takes you through the life of a pitcher from mid-career to his final, perfect game interspersed with how he develops a relationship, loses it, and then gains it back. Costner is spectacular in this role... much like Field of Dreams. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/03/23 Full Review Steve D The baseball works better than the romance but it is a fun ride. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Michael Sragow New Yorker For Love of the Game asks whether the same qualities that make an athlete a champion don't also destroy his happiness. The answer, unfortunately, is long-winded and redundant... But some of the baseball scenes are good. May 8, 2014 Full Review Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune This is no perfect -- or even half-perfect -- game. It's another movie where conventions are subbed for life lessons, where the emotions are cued by golden oldies and where the motivation (at least on the studio's part) isn't love of the game but money. Rated: 2/4 May 8, 2014 Full Review Stephen Hunter Washington Post Here are two things that definitely don't go together: baseball and piano music. May 8, 2014 Full Review Chuck Klosterman Akron Beacon Journal It's kind of like watching an actual baseball game: deliberate and slow, but occasionally perfect. Rated: 3/4 Oct 27, 2023 Full Review Mark Jackson Epoch Times "Bull Durham" is a more powerful movie than "For Love of the Game," so Kevin Costner might be better as a savvy minor league catcher than a hall-of-fame major league pitcher, but the fact is, Costner is simply and utterly baseballic. He's baseballerific. Rated: 4/5 Jun 10, 2020 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Every scene away from the ballpark is in foul territory. Rated: C Apr 13, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Forty-year-old pitcher Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is practically a dinosaur by professional baseball standards, fast approaching the end of his career. But, as Chapel stands on the mound pitching the game of his life, his thoughts don't turn to his prized history in sports, but rather return again and again to his tumultuous relationship with Jane Aubrey (Kelly Preston), a single mom who has stood at his side through the good and the bad but is now on the verge of leaving him.
      Director
      Sam Raimi
      Executive Producer
      Marc Abraham, Ronald M. Bozman
      Screenwriter
      Michael Shaara, Dana Stevens
      Distributor
      MCA/Universal Pictures [us], Universal Pictures, Universal Home Entertainment
      Production Co
      Beacon Communications, Universal Pictures, Tig Productions, Mirage Enterprises
      Rating
      PG-13
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 17, 1999, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 19, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $35.2M
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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