Mr. Baseball

1992
6
1 Std. 48 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,0/10

12.479

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Comedy Romance Sport

Jack Elliot, einst ein großer Baseballspieler, ist gezwungen, in Japan zu spielen, wo seine forsche, egoistische Art Reibereien mit seinen neuen Teamkollegen und Freunden verursacht.Jack Elliot, einst ein großer Baseballspieler, ist gezwungen, in Japan zu spielen, wo seine forsche, egoistische Art Reibereien mit seinen neuen Teamkollegen und Freunden verursacht.Jack Elliot, einst ein großer Baseballspieler, ist gezwungen, in Japan zu spielen, wo seine forsche, egoistische Art Reibereien mit seinen neuen Teamkollegen und Freunden verursacht.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,0/10

12.479

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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At one point in the movie, when the pitchers refuse to pitch to Selleck's character because they don't want him to break the home run record, Selleck turns his bat the other way around and challenges pitchers to pitch to him as a sign of protest. This comes from a real-life incident a few years before the movie in the Japan Leagues when Hanshin Tigers slugger Randy Bass was on the verge of breaking the single season home run record there and pitchers refused to pitch to him. Bass similarly turned his bat upside down to protest.

Patzer
The American bar Max takes Jack to in Japan to meet other American players is actually a Sports Bar in Los Angeles. All of the patrons and bartenders/servers are American and all of the beer signs and posters are in English and if you look outside the window you can clearly see it's Los Angeles and not Japan.

Zitate
[Jack just found out that Uchiyama is fluent in English]
Uchiyama: I am the Japanese manager for Japanese baseball team that you agreed to play for. It is your duty to learn my ways, not the other way around!
Jack Elliot: [to Hiroko] Different language, same attitude! Let's go!

Alternative Versionen
The Japanese theatrical version had three additional scenes. The first additional scene is following Jack and Hiroko's first dinner together, where she drops him off at his apartment building. The second scene is an extension of Jack and Hiroko visiting a shrine. The third has Jack and Uchiyama at a graveyard.

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Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Last of the Mohicans/Innocent Blood/Mr. Saturday Night/Glengarry Glen Ross/Laws of Gravity (1992)

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A pretty good baseball movie

If you like baseball, you'll dig this movie. It's kinda cheesy and it's not exactly Oscar-worthy, but Tom Selleck is pretty convincing as a struggling major leaguer who is traded to a Japanese team. If you've seen all the new releases (except Thin Red Line, which you should avoid like the plague) and you're looking for something light-hearted and entertaining, this movie is a safe bet. Enjoy.. and GO DODGERS!!! (yes they're struggling now, but i can feel a comeback)