For Love of the Game (1999)

Billy Chapel wordt na meer dan twintig jaar als sterspeler van de Detroit Tigers plots uit het team gezet. Wanneer bovendien zijn grote liefde, Jane Aubrey, hem verlaat, wordt hij gedwongen opnieuw zijn prioriteiten te stellen. In een uitverkocht stadion, aangemoedigd door duizenden fans, begint hij aan de belangrijkste wedstrijd uit z'n carriere.

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Director Sam Raimi follows up his 1998 hit A SIMPLE PLAN with a movie that completes Mr. Costner's unofficial trilogy of baseball films. Told almost entirely in flashback, the film concerns an already legendary 40 year-old pitcher, Billy Chapel, pitching the last game of his career that also marks the end of what has been, at best, a mediocre season. Going up against the Yankees, Billy remembers, while on the mound, his failed affair with the woman he still loves (Preston). As the game unfolds and it becomes apparent that he's on track to pitch a perfect game, Billy begins to wonder if he can win her back, and if...
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his ailing arm can make it through nine innings.
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