Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel

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Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel

2018

1h 27m

Documentary

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Jewish baseball players take on the world.

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Los Angeles Times

It's hard to imagine a true-life underdog tale more engaging than "Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel," a winning David vs. Goliath baseball documentary that covers all the crowd-pleasing bases.

Sep 5, 2019

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

A messy hybrid that has some interesting and amusing moments but ultimately feels as inauthentic as the team it chronicles.

Sep 5, 2019

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

It roots, roots, roots for its home team - and does little more.

Sep 5, 2019

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Gisela Savdie

Letra Urbana

The documentary does contain much political detail. It concentrates on the journey, the geographic regions, amusement, and the extraordinary reception of the new generation in Israel. [Full review in Spanish]

Apr 25, 2023

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M.V. Moorhead

Phoenix Magazine

Slickly made and briskly paced.

Nov 22, 2019

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Allison Rose

FlickDirect

If you like a good fairytale story, baseball or are Jewish (or more than one of these things) you will identify with Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel.

Rated: 4.5/5

Jul 10, 2019

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Emotional. A heartwarming story - gotta see if you love baseball.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

Outstanding! Fun, entertaining, instructional, about a great group of guys. I highly recommend it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

An amazing story of Baseball, Identity and Pride. The American players who enter an International Baseball competition as Team Israel. Most of them have some connection to Israel or Judaism but it is not very strong. or obvious. However, when they visit Israel to connect with their Jewish roots and then arrive for their game in Korea, that whole connection suddenly gels into a cohesive group who are proud to represent the country they have only heard of before.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Synopsis

Jewish baseball players take on the world.

Director: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
Producer: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger, Jonathan Mayo
Screenwriter: Daniel A. Miller
Distributor: Menemsha Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 14, 2018, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Sep 6, 2019
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 21, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $207.5K
Runtime: 1h 27m

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