A League of Their Own Reviews

'A League of Their Own' is funny and interesting, it has a funny performance from Tom Hanks and is directed by Penny Marshall, they were both part of the team of 'Big'

The funny quote was "Are you crying? There's no crying in baseball!" which Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) says when he upsets Evelyn Gardner (Bitty Schram)

I laughed at many scenes in 'A League of Their Own' and I actually rather enjoyed it, you may think that watching 'Swept Away', Madonna can't act, but she's not bad in this!

The relationship between rival baseball-playing sisters Kit and Dottie is what lies at the heart of "A League of their Own." The film is set against the backdrop of World War II, where able-bodied men were sent to fight and society wanted it bother ways- for women to step up to the task of 'man's work' while staying true to their femininity.

Well-liked Dottie (Geena Davis) and tomboyish Kit (Lori Petty) live a tough and mostly uneventful life on a dairy farm in Rural Oregon in the 40's. When obnoxious agent Ernie Capadino (John Lovitz)offers them a chance to play baseball professionally, Kit jumps at the chance, but Ernie wants Dottie, resulting in a ultimatum- Kit can tag along if Dottie comes too.

Kit has never felt as capable, beautiful, or talented as Dottie, and resentment colors her behavior throughout the film. Dottie reluctantly comes to the tryouts, and she and Kit end up on the same team, the Peaches. Sound like a recipe for trouble?

It is, and Kit is in competition with Dottie though most of the film, culminating in a finale where tears are shed, bonds are tested, and the only thing bigger than the sister's strained relationship is the bigger picture- the liberation- and eventual attempted stifling- of women in the sports scene.

You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy this movie, and the result is a highly entertaining- if Hollywood- comedy/drama. Tom Hanks is fun as a once-great alcoholic manager who is put in charge- must to his disgust- of the girls team. For me the most engrossing story was that of Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh,) a dowdy, painfully shy Daddy's Girl who is considered too unattractive to play in a time in women's' sports when keeping up appearances was considered more important than skill or speed.

Controversial public figures Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell play 'all the way' Mae and Doris Murphy, two white-trash loudmouths who somehow make it (not on good taste) into the Peaches. Regretfully, I didn't find either of the sisters as compelling as I'd of liked to. However, with the movie covering the bigger picture (World War II, feminism, the personalities of the other girls,) it's hard to picture the director doing more with the two-hour format.

I think "A League of Their Own" has a lot to offer everybody. I generally won't even give movies that focus on sports a chance and this movie entertained me with it's mix of funny and bittersweet moments. It is, at it's best, a joy to watch a baseball movie for people who have never seen a game in their life.

Follow Hanks and Geena Davis on a story of women's empowerment and the love of america's favorite pass time: baseball. See how women transform the sport and bring a nation together in the trying times of war.

I do *not* like it, actually.

I think that it was *tasteless*, and I think that the performance that Tom Hanks gave was tasteless, and I think that the whole movie had no class, no taste.

But what can you expect.

People back then had no class, no taste, no *culture*, at all.

At all.

What strikes one is the *coarseness* of the whole bloody fiasco....

I spit on it.

So! go ahead-- laugh at me, if you will.

But I *thoroughly* disapprove of it.

(6/10)

It's ironic that, a game mostly associated with male players, a film which focuses on the women's first professional entry into the sport, would be the one that, for me, truly captures the feeling which best reflects of why this sport is truly an American pasttime. That the purpose of a game is, no matter how the political world events may be turbulently transpiring, we all can just escape for a little while, catch a ballgame & hopefully return into the real world with our spirits a little higher & our perspectives a little bit clearer.
Because,
as we all know by now,
there is no crying in baseball.

This film is about a women's baseball league started in world war II to stand in while the men where away fighting. The movie itself in a highly enjoyable and entertaining fare with inspiring performance from Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna. Maybe one of the only films that was a box office hit with Madonna in it. She also sings the theme song. Wonderful, sensitive direction from former Laverne and Shirley star Penny Marshall

I didn't rate this movie THAT high, because everytime I sit down to watch it, I'm reminded of parts that I didn't care much for. I still like it though, because it definitely has it's moments and it's quotable.