For the love of the game

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Movie
German title For the love of the game
Original title For love of the game
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 138 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
Rod
Director Sam Raimi
script Dana Stevens
production Armyan Bernstein ,
Amy Robinson
music Basil Poledouris
camera John Bailey
cut Eric L. Beason ,
Arthur Coburn
occupation

For Love of the Game (Original title: For Love of the Game ) is an American sports drama from 1999 . Directed by Sam Raimi , the screenplay was written by Dana Stevens based on the novel of the same name by Michael Shaara from 1991.

action

Billy Chapel, 40, is a baseball player whose career as a pitcher is nearing its end. He meets his girlfriend Jane Aubrey in New York City before the last game of the season, who tells him that she has got a new job in London . Chapel is distracted during the game; a first flashback shows how he met Jane five years earlier. Her car broke down, he helped her and invited her to his team's game.

The next flashback shows Davis Birch, a Chapel teammate, who moves to a different team in New York. Chapel helps his family move. In some more flashbacks the development of the relationship with Jane and a meeting with Jane's daughter Heather - who wants to study - are shown. During the course of the game, Jane packs her things to leave for London. The fact that Chapel is on the verge of a perfect game while these thoughts are running through his mind only becomes clear to him before his last inning , and although he actually brings this extraordinary performance to an end, Chapel returns to his hotel after the game, dejected. The next morning he drives to the airport, where he meets Jane, who was watching the game on TV at the airport and deliberately missed her flight to Londen in order to be able to watch the game to the end. The film ends with the happy ending that they both reconcile.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "convincingly played combination of sports film and melodrama" that was "largely entertaining and, above all, staged in an exciting way in the baseball scenes".

Awards

Jena Malone and the film as Best Drama were nominated for the Young Artist Award in 2000. Jena Malone was nominated for the YoungStar Award and for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award in 2000. The film was 2000 for the Golden Reel Award of Motion Picture Sound Editors nominated.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Kevin Costner was nominated for Worst Actor for the Golden Raspberry in 2000.

backgrounds

The film was shot in New York City and in some locations in Colorado and California . Its production amounted to an estimated 50 million US dollars . Kevin Costner was satisfied with a lower payment than usual, but could not enforce his film concept. It came to a falling out between him and the production company Universal Studios . The film grossed approximately $ 35.17 million in United States cinemas. For the baseball scenes of the film, Costner was trained by MLB baseball player Mike Buddie , and the most successful college coach in baseball history, Augie Garrido , was hired to act as the coach of the opposing team .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Aus Liebe zum Spiel . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ For the love of the game. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 13, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Filming locations for For Love of the Game , accessed April 1, 2008
  4. ↑ Cinema , accessed April 1, 2008.
  5. ↑ Box office results for For Love of the Game , accessed April 1, 2008.