Boys of Summer

I thought Boys of Summer was excellent. It's a movie that all baseball fans will enjoy, as well as anyone who appreciates a very nice father-son story. I particularly enjoyed seeing each and every park in the Major Leagues, and the close bond that Robert and Dan have with each other. You get a real feel of their personalities and the type of relationship they have with each other, one that would make many fathers & sons a little jealous. The ballparks are great....and as anyone who has been to many of them knows, each one is unique, and something to be savored. And all the while, you see the struggles that people with Parkinson's have, which gave me a much better understanding of the disease. I would highly recommend this to everyone I know.

A fabulous film that can be enjoyed by both genders and all ages. Very touching yet filled with laughs. I loved being able to see all of the different baseball parks across the U.S.! The Director, Robert, and his Father, Dan, have a fantastic relationship with an immense amount of love for one another. Both have a great sense of humor which allows for many laughs during the movie.

Speaking from someone who does not know a lot about Parkinson's Disease, I found this movie to be very motivating and it left me wanting to learn more about Parkinson's. The movie has a contagious energy had me crying and laughing. Thank you for your hard work.

This is an extraordinary film, made on a shoestring but looking far better than that. See it if you love baseball. See it if you love road movies. See it if you have Parkinson's, or love someone who has Parkinson's...for that matter, see it if you just know someone who has it, and chances are you do. My husband has PD, and we saw the film as it was honored with closing the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival. A huge Parkinson's community attended, as did - I imagine - regular baseball fiends. It's a movie of love and laughs and tears, not afraid of frank emotion but equally unafraid of understated humor and flat-out human sweet-but-sexy openness. Take your kids if they love baseball. There's so much to learn here. Take them, especially, if someone in your family has PD. Just go. Support this little, big film.

From Phoenix Film Festival viewing - elevates baseball from current morass and brings it back to wholesome status. Father and son odyssey caught merrily visiting and yukking up nations baseball and life.

Film covers the journey of a loving son and father visiting 30 ballparks, Negro League Museum, MLB Hall of Fame, and Field of Dreams Much was offered along the way.

Parkinson's disease was the cause of the timing of the baseball experience delayed by normal life until fathers' diagnosis. Audiences are very fortunate to be included in this experience from a well executed and personally entertaining perspective.

This father and son duo plus their casts of new friends kept the audience interested and entertained with apple pie humor as they criss-crossed the country sometimes with the help of fans, the baseball parks personnel, and the Parkinson's groups.

This film helps to revive and create feelings for baseball and the Field of Dreams original feeling.

This film promotes baseball and its place in America - with the realization that life is better for its existence.

By zig-zagging across the country for two months to visit every Major League ballpark, the Cochranes live out the ultimate father-son fantasy in this documentary. Unfortunately, there's an element of tragedy that accompanies this fantasy, as Dan Cochrane's battle with Parkinson Disease serves as the impetus for this cross-country journey with his film-making son. And it is here where Robert Cochrane hits a massive home run. He artfully weaves his father's daily struggles to cope with the disease with stories of others dealing with the plight, while at the same time providing those uplifting father-son baseball moments for which our National Pastime is so revered.

I took my 10-year-old son to see this movie, and as the credits rolled, he looked to me and said "Wow!" Wow, indeed! If you like films that move you emotionally -- that make you laugh, think and cry -- you will love "Boys of Summer."