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YEAR OF RELEASE: 1993

DIRECTOR: David Mickey Evans

GENRE: Comedy RUNNING

TIME: 1 hr. 40 mins.

RATING: PG

Actors:
Tom Guiry --- Scotty
Mike Vitar --- the Jet Patrick Renna --- Ham Chauncey
Leopardi --- Squints

Memorable Quote:
“Remember this kid. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart kid and you’ll never go wrong.”

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The Sandlot

Neighborhood legends, baseball rivalries, lasting friendships, and a summer where it all began—at the Sandlot.

This story set in the summer of 1962, starts when a new kid moves into the neighborhood. Scotty Smalls just wants to make some friends, but he knows nothing about baseball. But then there’s Benjamin Rodriguez who shows Smalls a thing or two about playing ball and everyone at the sandlot becomes friends. The summer is going great, but then Smalls sends a baseball signed by “The Great Bambino over the fence separating the sandlot from the Beast. After the ball is long gone, he finds out that it really is important and that its worth, well more than his whole life. After that, the majority of the summer is spent with nine kids trying anything possible to get that ball back.

This cast was filled with a bunch of twelve-year-old boys who got paid to play baseball and make a movie over the summer. Many of these kids, and sometimes together, went off to make other sports films like “The Mighty Ducks” or “The Big Green.” For the first few main actors, we have Tom Guiry; Scotty smalls—the new kid, Mike Vitar; the leader and local legend Benny “the Jet” Rodriguez, Patrick Renna; Hamilton “Ham” Porter, and Chauncey Leopardi; Mike “Squints” Palledorus. For the other characters we have Marty York; Alan McCllellan—aka “Yeah-Yeah,” Brandon Adams; Kenny Denunez, and Grant Gelt; Bertram Grover Weeks. Then there’s the brothers Timmy and Tommy “Repeat” Timmons: Victor DiMattia and Shane Obedzinski. This cast also had Denis Leary and Karen Allen as Scotty Small’s step-dad and mother. But no one could forget James Earl Jones as Mr.Mertle: the beast’s owner, and also Art LaFleur as Babe Ruth.

There is nothing that comes to mind about this movie that I can complain about, but any big fans should definitely check out “The Sandlot 2” and other installments to come. But I don’t think that they would ever come close to the first one, to that field and with the kids that started it all, at the Sandlot

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