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Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel

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Jewish baseball players take on the world.
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Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times 09/05/2019
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. Go to Full Review
Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter 09/05/2019
A messy hybrid that has some interesting and amusing moments but ultimately feels as inauthentic as the team it chronicles. Go to Full Review
Ben Kenigsberg New York Times 09/05/2019
It roots, roots, roots for its home team - and does little more. Go to Full Review
Gisela Savdie Letra Urbana 04/25/2023
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] Go to Full Review
M.V. Moorhead Phoenix Magazine 11/22/2019
Slickly made and briskly paced. Go to Full Review
Allison Rose FlickDirect 07/10/2019
4.5/5
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. Go to Full Review
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02/13/2019 Emotional. A heartwarming story - gotta see if you love baseball. See more 12/24/2018 Outstanding! Fun, entertaining, instructional, about a great group of guys. I highly recommend it. See more 07/15/2018 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. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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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