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Gary Ross
Screenplay -
Kevin Wade
Screenplay -
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer -
Fred Schepisi
Director -
Alexander Courage
Orchestrator -
Monte Merrick
Screenplay -
John Junkerman
Story -
Ariel Levy
Producer
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GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023 3:09:17AM
Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is. It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends international boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it. And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm. But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.
Tom Selleck
Jack ElliotKen Takakura
UchiyamaDennis Haysbert
Max 'Hammer' DuboisKosuke Toyohara
Toshi YamashitaBob Costas
Himself (voice) (uncredited)Art LaFleur
SkipMineko Yorozuyo
Hiroko's GrandmotherJun Hamamura
Hiroko's Grandfather