The Cleveland Indians

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Movie
German title The Cleveland Indians
Original title Major League
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length approx. 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David S. Ward
script David S. Ward
production Chris Chesser , Irby Smith
music James Newton Howard
camera Reynaldo Villalobos
cut Dennis M. Hill
occupation

The Indians of Cleveland (Original Title: Major League ) is an American comedy film from 1989 . A bunch of athletic losers form a successful baseball team and thwart the plans of the scheming owner of her club. Directed by David S. Ward .

action

When the owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team dies, Rachel Phelps inherits the team, a former "exotic dancer". In order to be able to move with the Indians from Cleveland to Miami , she wants to use a clause from the contract with the city of Cleveland. This allows the team to move if the average number of spectators falls below a certain level. To do this, she wants to assemble the worst team in Major League Baseball . The new "hobby trainer" Lou Brown is therefore mainly provided with aging and amateur players, including ex-prisoner Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn. After the team's initial tests, however, it turns out that “The Indians” are not that bad after all. After the first successes, team manager Phelps reacts and stops all luxury of the players. When the coach and the players learn of their move plans, the race to catch up in the league begins. The “dream team” even made it to the final and won the championship for the first time in 32 years.

background

  • The film was shot in Tucson , Milwaukee and Chicago , among others . It grossed approximately $ 49.8 million in US cinemas .
  • After Cannery (Cannery Row) (1982) was the Minors only the second directorial effort, and the first success of the director David S. Ward .
  • David S. Ward is best known for the screenplay for The Sting (The Sting) also from 1973, for which he Oscar received.
  • It was only the third Wesley Snipes film that made its breakthrough.
  • Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger had filmed Platoon together three years earlier .
  • The player "Willie Mays Hayes" alludes to Willie Mays , who was also very fast and ran many bases. He was also a center field player. In the second part the whole thing is underlined by a catch in which he catches the ball with his back to the field, the so-called "The Catch".

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn Charlie Sheen Bernd Vollbrecht
Jake Taylor Tom Berenger Patrick Winczewski
Pedro Cerrano Dennis Haysbert Christian Rode
Roger Dorn Corbin Bernsen Ulrich Gressieker
Willi Mays Hayes Wesley Snipes Charles Rettinghaus
Lou Brown James Gammon Wolfgang Völz
Harry Doyle Bob Uecker Jürgen Thormann
Lynn Wells Rene Russo Traudel Haas

Sequels

The film was so successful in America that two sequels were shot, but they were rather unsuccessful.

Reviews

"An athlete's film with a gentle, comedic touch that ultimately strings together too many familiar set pieces to be captivating and requires precise knowledge of the baseball rules, which are hardly familiar in this country."

- Lexicon of international film

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations according to IMDb
  2. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
  3. ↑ The Indians of Cleveland. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 6, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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