Mr. Baseball

PG-13

10/2/19921h 48m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla! ~

Overview:

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

Director:

Fred Schepisi

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$20,000,000.00

Key words:

japan
baseball

Cast

Tom Selleck

~ as ~

Jack Elliot

Ken Takakura

~ as ~

Uchiyama

Aya Takanashi

~ as ~

Hiroko Uchiyama

Dennis Haysbert

~ as ~

Max 'Hammer' Dubois

Toshi Shioya

~ as ~

Yoji Nishimura

Kosuke Toyohara

~ as ~

Toshi Yamashita

Toshizo Fujiwara

~ as ~

Ryoh Mukai

Mak Takano

~ as ~

Shinji Igarashi

Kenji Morinaga

~ as ~

Hiroshi Kurosawa

Joh Nishimura

~ as ~

Tomohiko Ohmie

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Reviews (1)

GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
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.