For Love of the Game (film)

• Kevin Costner: Billy Chapel
• Kelly Preston: Jane Aubrey
• John C. Reilly: Gus Sinski
• Jena Malone: Heather Aubrey
• Brian Cox: Gary Wheeler
• Addie Daddio: waitress
• J. K. Simmons: Frank Perry
• Vin Scully: He himself
• Steve Lyons: He himself
• Carmine Giovinazzo: Ken Strout
• Bill E. Rogers: Davis Birch
• Hugh Ross: Mike Udall

For Love of the Game (Original Title: For Love of the Game) is an American sports drama from 1999 was directed by Sam Raimi and written by Dana Stevens based on the novel by Michael Shaara in 1991. .

Action

The 40 -year-old Billy Chapel is a baseball player whose career as a pitcher approaches the end. He arrives in New York City before the last season game his girlfriend Jane Aubrey, who tells him she got a new job in London. Chapel is distracted during the game; in a first flashback is shown as five years earlier Jane met. She had a car breaks down, he helped her and invited her to the game of his team.

The next flashback shows Davis Birch, a teammate of Chapel, who is moving to another team to New York. Chapel helps his family with the move. In a few more flashbacks of the developing relationship with Jane, and a meeting with Jane's daughter Heather will Chapels - wants to study - shown. As the game progresses Jane packs her bags to leave for London. That Chapel, while it these thoughts go through your head, is close to a Perfect Game, he realizes just before his last inning, and although he actually brings this extraordinary power to end, Chapel returns after the game reflected in his hotel. The next morning he goes to the airport, where he meets Jane, whose plane is late. He confesses his love for her and the two sons off.

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film wrote that the film was a "convincing played combination of sports and movie melodrama ", the " staged largely entertaining and exciting especially in the baseball scenes " is.

Awards

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

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

Background

The film was shot in New York City and some locations in Colorado and in California. His cost of production was estimated at 50 million U.S. dollars. Kevin Costner was content with a lower payment than usual, yet could not enforce his movie concept. It came to a rift between him and the production company Universal Studios. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 35.17 million U.S. dollars. For the baseball scenes in the movie Costner was trained by the MLB Baseball player Mike Buddie, as performers for the coach of the opposing team was the most successful college coaches baseball history, Augie Garrido, committed.