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Nothing surprising, but still a heart-felt story of a high school science teacher/baseball coach that achieves his dream of pitching in the major leagues. The cool part is that it's true. I kind of wish I'd seen this on DVD to see the extras that no doubt tell more about the real life story.
I know I watched the original version, but I must have fallen asleep originally because it was all new to me. Quite an amazing movie, the helicopter battle scene is incredible. I'd like to see the documentary "Heart of Darkness". All sorts of big actors looking very young in this version.
It's the style that gets you ... this has every look of a 50s movie. Not just the dress and mannerisms, but the actual film itself -- the quick cuts, the cheesy music, the technicolor. Very impressive. The movie itself was really quite good. I don't know what more I was expecting, it did everything very very well, but it just didn't touch me at the core.
Definitely a formula movie, and the last act gets pretty absurd, but Kevin Kline gives a good performance that is fun to watch. We all wish we had a teacher like him.