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Name: For Love of the Game
Released: 1999-9-17
Cast: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Brian Cox, Jena Malone

For Love of the Game

PG-13
2h 17m
1999

46%

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Legendary Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) has always been better at baseball than at love. Just ask Jane (Kelly Preston), his on-again, off-again girlfriend. At the end of a disappointing season, just before what may be the last professional game of his life, Jane tells Billy she's leaving him. Now, with his career and his love life in the balance, Billy battles against his physical and emotional limits as he plays the game of his life. And now with every pitch, Billy comes closer to making the most important decision of his life. The suspense doesn't end until the last ball is thrown in this heartwarming drama about love, life and the perfect game.

Director:

Sam Raimi

Producer:

Armyan Bernstein, Amy Robinson

Writer:

Dana Stevens

Cast:

Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Brian Cox, Jena Malone, JK Simmons

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

46%

Critics Consensus: Baseball wins, romance loses.

Reviews

Akron Beacon Journal

Chuck Klosterman

It's kind of like watching an actual baseball game: deliberate and slow, but occasionally perfect.

"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.

June 10, 2020

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

Every scene away from the ballpark is in foul territory.

April 12, 2021

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New Yorker

Michael Sragow

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.

March 4, 2019

Chicago Tribune

Michael Wilmington

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.

August 16, 2017

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