Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Jeff Melchior Jodie Foster is radiant in an Oscar-worthy performance as a whimsical free-spirit without rules whose failed marriages and unfulfilled plans to see the world lead to a tragic demise calling Mark Harmon on a sentimental journey home to tend to the ashes of his erstwhile babysitter, friend and onetime lover. Engaging tale told in flashbacks reminding the aimless Harmon, in a role shared with William McNamara and Thacher Goodwin at different points in his life, to return to the game he left prematurely after his error cost his team a game: "You're a ballplayer, that's who you are," the stunning Foster counsels him retroactively. Jonathan Silverman and Harold Ramis are both terrific as the sex-crazed buddy Alan Appleby. Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins is solid as Foster's grieving and numb father. Helen Hunt appears briefly as Harmon's pregnant sister. May be too melancholy for some but offers many rewards, including a beautiful musical score by David Foster and many classic hits from the 60's. Look for ex-Baltimore Orioles hero and former Brewers coach Rich Dauer as Harmon's San Bernardino Spirit Manager and All-Star first baseman Wally Joyner on the mound surrendering Harmon's triple in final sequence. Contains just a few baseball scenes but the scruffy Harmon looks the part of a has-been ballplayer throughout. A real treat.

Luis Guillermo Cardona On behalf of youth, there have been some of the worst scarecrows of film history, but also, from time to time (¿why is always good once in a while?) Is a story that blanket the soul and brings us back the romance, sometimes we lost forever. And it's so beautiful dream with open eyes! And so great was that first love that made us believe that in this world was perfect! There is, perhaps, other moments that are remembered with more gratitude, as experienced with tenderness and passion in our adolescence. "Stealing Home" is one of those movies. The story is about a boy (Billy Wyatt) baseball player, in crisis after the death of his father who one day finds out that Kathy Chandler, his sweet first love, killed himself and hopes that he is the man take charge of her ashes. Then the memories begin. With each haunting space, the past returns unstoppable, and Billy is remembered as a ten year old boy fascinated by the beautiful Kathy sixteen. Travel by car, the first installment, the horse diver, swimming pool... The enormity of the simple, tenderness and charm of every gesture, every touch, every word. The forever stamp each encounter... and death that is interwoven to tell her it was all an illusion and that nothing is to touch it again. Kathy was a young girl who wanted to own your life every minute, every second. He wanted to chart a path of freedom in a world where constraints arising everywhere. But you can say I tried to exhaust his strength... to vanish in a haze of memory. Jodie Foster gives an adult character,charming and credible. In full bloom of adolescence, showing mature, sensitive, beautiful, and lets us feel that great actress who has always been throughout his career.Beautiful songs and a nice atmosphere reminiscent of famous titles as "Summer of 42" or "The Man in the Moon", make this an enjoyable film worth seeing and remembering.

trpdean This is a fictional character study, nostalgia piece, and inspirational story. The reason it works is not so much the novelty of the plot or situations, but the actors and the physical settings.Rarely has a film been cast so very well.Mark Harmon, fine actor and former star USC quarterback plays a baseball player.One of America's very best actresses, Jodie Foster plays his older friend.Another of the top American actresses, Blair Brown plays his mother (when he was small).The very appealing John A. Shea (think of his portrayal of Robert F. Kennedy or his co-star part on the Spuerman series) is his father.The really lovely, Southern seductress Beth Broderick (former co-star of Sabrina and so often well-cast as the beauty on series such as From the earth to the Moon) is perfectly cast - as is Jonathan Silverman in a Summer of '42 part.Harmon and Foster are opposites in so many ways - in life as well as their characters - yet they're both so unselfish, so singular as personalities - Mark Hamill was born to play the taciturn disciplinarian General Black Jack Pershing leader of America's military in our first World War, and Jodie Foster was born to play a very pretty poetry editor of a literary quarterly in the Village in the 1950s - and I don't think they share a scene together here (he plays the boy as a 38 year old - and we don't see her after she's in her mid-20s) yet we feel them together throughout the film - they dominate the film.Such is the appeal of Harmon that we can see his character wholly irresponsible and really wanting to dump the business of his boyhood mentor's urn of ashes upon his mother - and yet like him very much.Such is the appeal of Foster that we can hear her utter every silly clichéd sentiment of a girl of that age and that time - and yet think she's really worth caring for - we can fall in love with this young woman whom we might really think an idiot in real life.But Foster is so obviosly NOT an idiot, that she lends intelligence to a cliché - and Harmon is so obviously a responsible sober responsible man that he lends this to his often drunken, prostitute-visiting character.They lift this movie to something special and really worth watching.I'd love to see Harmon and Foster share the same movie again. They're so different, both highly appealing, both very distinctive.You'll like this movie.

Amsomnia Studios I have done many reviews, some of them I really want to update, and one of the movies that I haven't updated is this one. Believe me that is a strange thing, because this movie is properly my favorite movie of all time. So for a couple of minutes listen and think about it, I want to update this review so enjoy...Storyline - 10/10 - The story goes something like this, Billy Wyatt is a washed up baseball player that never really amounted to anything. His life is now centered on living with a cocktail waitress as he himself explains it. One day his mother call him to tell him that his old babysitter who was there for him in many years and as well as being one he loved has killed herself and at her favorite place. She also left a note telling that she wanted Billy to have the ashes since he was the only one who knew what to do with them. So at night he returns home to his birth place and lives with his mom for some days. At first he doesn't know what to do with the ashes and hands them to his mother who tells him he is the only who could know and they were left for him. The story then follows Billy recalling the past with a lot of flashbacks through the movie. Those flashbacks are then in the end the final answer to where the ashes should be placed. While he does all this he slowly becomes whole again and finds the passion for baseball...Actors - 10/10 - Both Jodie Foster and Mark Harmon play their roles perfectly, you really feel with them, and you feel like the story is really told to you. They both show the feelings they should and they really do almost feel real to the viewer the feelings are conveyed in a way not many can do these days. Apart from Jodie Foster and Mark Harmon the actor Jonathan Silverman should not be understated, his role as Alan Appleby is so spot on and even the old version played by Harold Ramis can't be understated. Of course Blair Brown and John Shea really do also steal away the story, they act so real like and it works all the way.Soundtrack - 10/10 - The soundtrack is comprised of many known songs through the years and of course they are all from that decade, but there are also some done by David Foster. David Foster's music cannot be understated, the theme of Stealing Home moves you in a way not many movies can, the other themes like Katie's Theme and Home Movies are also heartbreaking and heart restoring if you can say that. But nothing can really be done more right then the song for the Stealing Home theme "And When She Danced" it is properly one of the best romantic songs ever written for a movie and it is done right. Both David Foster and Marilyn Martin sings it and moves you the way it you should be moved.Special Effects - N/A - Well I guess there are some camera poses and such and different lighting but this movie isn't an action movie, there isn't any special effects so to speak of, and of course there really doesn't need to so there isn't much to say about this part of the review the lighting and the camera angles and poses are well directed so nothing bad there.Overall - 10/10 - Overall this movie is my favorite and one I recommend fondly, it really should be watched once. Now a day it can be a little rare but should you be lucky enough to see it on a store shelf and you haven't seen it before buy it. I promise you a good time, don't look at rating, and even though this is a review don't create your own idea of the movie through this. But at least try and watch it, if you don't like it that's fine, a review is only a point from another viewer every person's opinion will vary, but I think at least you should try...