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The Sandlot

1993

David M. Evans

Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi ...

6.4

997

Comedy. Drama Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he's part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] has a weirdly exalted tone. The rest is terribly cute"	POS
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"A scruffy underdog yarn that will appeal not only to kids but also to their thirty- or fortysomething parents (...) this outing touches all the right emotional, comic and human bases"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"'Sandlot' has its annoying qualities. Its constant narration (...) is completely superfluous. The young performers provide all the movie's necessary exuberance."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The story gently leaves the realm of the possible and ventures into the exaggerations common to all childhood legends (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Rainer Los Angeles Times	"A Grand Slam of cliches"	NEG
United States	Leonard Klady Variety	"Sweet and sincere, the film is also a remarkably shallow wade, rife with incident and slim on substance"	NEU

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