Synopsis
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
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Cast
- Kevin CostnerBilly Chapel
- Kelly PrestonJane Aubrey
- John C. ReillyGus Sinski
- Jena MaloneHeather Aubrey
- Brian CoxGary Wheeler
- J.K. SimmonsFrank Perry
- Vin ScullySelf
- Steve LyonsSelf
- Carmine GiovinazzoKen Strout
- Bill E. RogersDavis Birch
Recommendations
- 75
Portland Oregonian
More of a bunt than a home run. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Those who have even a small soft spot for baseball's soothing rhythms will be hard-pressed to resist it. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
This sentimental drama is wildly uneven as it switches between ballpark scenes, which are very involving, and romantic episodes, which are badly overplayed. - 50
L.A. Weekly
The film's larger, surprisingly mature emotional rhythms are strong enough to pull it through. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Costner's determination to avoid change keeps this baseball movie at a low line drive when it might have knocked one into the bleachers. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The weighty themes of loss, regret and abdication of personal responsibility are undermined by the reverential use of baseball as a symbol of mankind's potential for selfless greatness. - 50
Miami Herald
The real love affair in For Love of the Game is between Costner and himself. - 40
Film.com
Costner's serious-as-a-heart-attack performance...slowly kills the movie's energy in a gooey morass of forced sincerity.
