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Ex-baseball player Billy comes home to receive his childhood darling's ashes.Ex-baseball player Billy comes home to receive his childhood darling's ashes.Ex-baseball player Billy comes home to receive his childhood darling's ashes.
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GREAT FILM!!!
Ever since I first saw this film at age 13 I thought it was very heart touching. Now ten-years late and at 23 I watched this with my girlfirend and still had the same feelings. This movie will make you think of that first love or person in your life that you let go of or lost. Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster did an excellet job in this movie and I'll vwatch it over and over again!
I loved this movie
This is one that I have in my collection at home that is one of my favorites. Those that I have loaned it to love it also. Jodie Foster was incredible as was the rest of the cast. It was a very sweet story and only wish it had received more recognition.
Wonderful Sleeper
More movies should be pure enjoyment. They don't have to be great to be enjoyable and this movie with it's nostalgia and adolescent discovery of the wonder of girls is a fun movie. The best part of the movie is the steady friendship between Appleby and Billy Boy. It begins with them and ends with them having matured and yet having not lost their youth. Don't watch this movie as a critique. Watch it as if you are enjoying the popcorn.
Stole my heart...
This is one of my all time favorite movies. I'm amazed how so few people have heard of it. It's certainly a hidden treasure and I encourage people to give it a good look. It's very romantic, tragic and funny all at once. I particularly love Katy's character (played by Jody Foster). She is every girl and woman rolled into one...
Love life like their is no tomorrow
In the beginning of the movie, you understand about 'stealing home'. But, not in the sense you think. Through flashbacks, you travel the adolescent to adulthood path. You learn about Love. Friendship. Pain. You learn that ... life gives us curve balls when we least expect it, or want it. Stealing Home let's see life through the eyes of a coming of age teen. A boy who became a man while struggling with hardship.
The curve balls will come at you. But, it's how you handle them that counts.
The curve balls will come at you. But, it's how you handle them that counts.
Did you know
- TriviaThe opposing pitcher in the final game is a former major league player, Wally Joyner.
- GoofsWhen adult Billy(Mark Harmon) finally gets to his mother, Ginny's, home, they have dinner with younger adult sister, Hope(Helen Hunt), and they discuss Hope's pregnancy. But over dinner Hope is drinking wine. Especially in the late 1980's the connection between alcohol and pregnancy was prevalent and women were warned of not drinking while pregnant, so this is out of character.
- Quotes
Katie Chandler: See that's all I want to do Billy-Boy. I want to leap of this pier and fly high in the air with hang with the wind and drift through the clouds, and at night, with the Moon full and the sea wild, I meet my lover high on a cliff and we'd swoop down into the ocean and swim all the way touch the bottom up through the dark water and break the surface. Then we'd fly to Jamaica for Pina Colatas... God, I wish I could do that.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,467,504
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,346,864
- Aug 28, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $7,467,504
- Runtime
- 1h 38m(98 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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