Director: Penny Marshall
Year:1992
A League of Their Own is a very inspirational movie about
women’s softball. I really enjoyed this movie and it has so many big stars in
it. The movie includes very noticeable people like, Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell,
and Madonna. The movie starts out with Dottie attending an induction to the
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
While she is there she runs into a bunch of her old teammates that leads to a
flashback to the days that she played. During the time these women all played
softball was during World War II and many professional teams were not making
money so the Cubs owner decided to create a women’s division to make more money.
Dottie was a beautiful woman that was an incredible catcher and her younger
sister Kit was a very good pitcher. The Cubs owner wants Dottie to try out for
the team but she wants to stay working on their dairy farm. Kit really wants to
go join the team and eventually with Dottie and another woman Marla all go to
tryouts. They and some other woman are selected to play for a team called the
Rockford Peaches. The peaches manager was a former Cubs player but had to quit
because he was an alcoholic. For the first little while the new woman’s league
was not getting a lot of interest from people and it looked like it was going
to be a very short-lived idea. But when the Peaches make it to the World Series
people started to become huge fans of the league. During the game the
always-jealous sisters Dottie and Kit get in a fight, but after they won the
game they both make up and all is fine. Dottie decides she no longer wants to
play and would rather raise a family. At the end of the movie it goes back to
them all at the ceremony where you see all over the players together reuniting.
I thought the movie was really well made, had some really funny parts as well
as some dramatic parts to it. The storyline flowed very nicely and I like how
they started with a flashback and then ended back in the present. Overall I
would defiantly watch this movie again.
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