Summer catch
| Movie | |
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| German title | Summer catch |
| Original title | Summer catch |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Michael Tollin |
| script |
Kevin Falls , John Gatins |
| production |
Brian Robbins , Michael Tollin , Sam Weisman |
| music |
George Fenton , Tarsha Vega |
| camera | Tim Suhrstedt |
| cut | Harvey Rosenstock |
| occupation | |
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Summer Catch (alternate title: Summer Catch - In love with one fell swoop ) is an American teenage comedy directed by Michael Tollin from 2001 and starring Freddie Prinze Jr. , Jessica Biel , Fred Ward and Brian Dennehy in the lead roles.
action
Ryan Dunne loves to play baseball . Ambitious and talented, he spends most of his free time on the baseball field. He's hoping to be discovered by a professional team. He plays well; but has a handicap : he throws the ball with his left hand. Left-handed as a professional pitcher in Major League Baseball is very rare. Ryan makes a living at his father's nursery. In the summer he mows the lawn of various rich people. He is dissatisfied with his love life. His coach offers Ryan to play in the baseball summer league. Ryan is thrilled and sees this as the chance of a lifetime. In the beginning it was very difficult for him in the team. His teammates are all college students who think they are something better. However, Ryan plays very well and produces sensational performances. After all, he gradually wins the sympathies of his teammates.
One day he meets Tenley Parrish, who spends the summer months with her parents on Cape Cod, and falls in love with them. She graduated from a top university , but she has no problem with Ryan's just a gardener. Your father takes a very different view of the matter. He is a rich and very arrogant businessman and does not want his daughter to mess with a simple worker. He tries to end the relationship by threatening Ryan's father's company with canceling a large contract . It would be a financial disaster for the small horticultural company and it would have to close. Ryan doesn't know what to do.
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack includes 22 songs.
- Sweet Summer by Aaron Kamin and Alex Band
- Jump by Keith Volpone, Walter Brandt and Bill Brandt
- Would you ...? by David Lowe
- Straight To… Number One by David Lowe and Vanessa Lancaster
- Bohemian Like You by Courtney Taylor-Taylor
- Soul Sound by Charlotte Edwards and Sam Harley
- Let It Go by Scott Blasey
- Mr. Hawkins from Uncle Kracker and Mike Bradford
- Another Day by John Hampson
- Anything and Everything by Gordon Kennedy , Wayne Kirkpatrick and Billy Mann
- Every Time She Walks by Miles Zuniga, Tony Scalzo, Joey Shuffield and Britt Daniel
- I Like It by Tony Pabon and Manny Rodriguez
- Going Back to Cali by Rick Rubin and LL Cool J
- Over My Head by Dan Wilson
- Makes No Difference by Sum 41
- The Whole Enchilada by Shelly Parker and Brett Laurence
- Wild Blue Night by Dillon O'Brian, Frina Harmon and Matthew Gerrard
- Skin by Ed Roland
- Tell Her This by Tomas Costanza
- What It Beez Like by Sam Hollander, David Schommer and Tarsha Vega
- Sometimes by Michael Franti and Carl Young
- Lovin 'Each Day by Rick Nowels and Gregg Alexander
background
The film was on Cape Cod ( Massachusetts ), in Cincinnati ( Ohio ) and North Carolina turned. Its production amounted to an estimated 34 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 19.7 million in US cinemas.
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The film received mixed reviews. In the Internet Movie Database , the film received an average rating of 4.9 out of 10 in over 4,000 reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes reviewers got 8% positive reviews. At Metacritic , the critics got 21% positive reviews.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “conventional” and “a soulful mixture of (sports) drama, romantic comedy and 'development novel' with a very simple plot, prepared for a young audience”. Only the portrayal of the "old star" Brian Dennehy was praised.
Web links
- official page
- Summer Catch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summer Catch at Allmovie
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summer Catch. In: amazon.de. Amazon.com , accessed February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Soundtracks. IMDb , accessed February 21, 2016 .
- ^ Filming locations for Summer Catch , accessed August 13, 2007
- ↑ Summer Catch. In: Box Office Mojo . Amazon.com , accessed February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Summer Catch (2001). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Summer Catch. Metacritic , accessed February 21, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Summer Catch (2001). IMDb , accessed on February 21, 2016 .
- ^ Lexicon of International Films , accessed on August 13, 2007