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Wish I remembered it better
When I was a kid, every time we went to Videomax (the old one on Gratiot), I'd make a bee-line for this movie and beg to watch it again. <
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>It's not the plot and filmography that kept bringing me back. It's Tiger Stadium, Sparky, Ernie Harwell, and the national anthem being sung by a Supreme. If you didn't grow up with Tram & Lou and the blue-lathered cement of Michigan & Trumbell, don't bother. But if your Great Grandpa wondered at Cobb, your grandfather tells tales of Greenberg, your dad's mitt was signed by Kaline, and your kids just drew "Rodriguez 7" on the back of their t-shirts, then put "Angels in the Outfield" in a box in the basement and get this piece of Detroit up on your shelf, even if, at times, it's more bland than the nachos at CoPa.

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Not as good as I'd hoped
This movie was a little darker and at times depressing. It seemed to move slowly. For a Disney movie I was expecting it to be a little more upbeat, especially for my son and I to watch together. The baseball play was a little staged and not very authentic. It painted a fairly depressing picture of what living in Detroit is like (unfortunately it seemed to be accurate). I watched an old VHS version. It was an "OK" movie and I'm guess I'm glad I've seen it but there are a lot of much better baseball movies out there.

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SpartanChiq
One of the best baseball movies ever! I think I actually still have it on VHS somewhere, but it is probably so mangled from watching it over and over again that you can't watch it. I used to love when he would sneak into Tiger Stadium and outrun the security (security was about as effective then as it is now, nice to know some things never change!).