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| Director: David S. Ward
Actors: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton, James Gammon
Studio: Paramount
List Price: $12.99
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 4442
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 107
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM2550
UPC: 097361207544
EAN: 0097361207544
ASIN: B000M343BM
Theatrical Release Date: April 7, 1989
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Dust cover warn very little, Disk light scratches, did not watch bought for my son, did not check the rating (R)
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| Customer Reviews:
 Major League-Tom Berenger May 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Take a bunch of guys that are not the best of the best and turn them into a great baseball team. These men are all out to try to improve their lives and the way they go about it is both serious and funny. Each one compliments the others in their own way. This is just a great movie all the way round!!
Classic Sport Melodrama November 25, 2006
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
Bollywood loves to churn out action films, but the Indians could learn some lessons from the Jewish-American cartel in Hollywood concerning story construction from this classic sport melodrama presented in the traditional three act format - three 40-minute blocks to produce a 2-hour movie. Much is done brilliantly in the construction of the film and its story. In the opening scene, the antagonist is introduced and hooks the viewer when she reveals the premise and plot - a rotten season where attendance falls below 800,000 for the year will allow her to escape her lease with the city and relocate her recently inherited Cleveland Indians baseball team to Miami, so she's invited has-beens and screwballs to training camp with the aim of composing a team that stinks enough to cause attendance to drop.
The remainder of the scenes in the first act introduce the protagonist (the catcher played by Tom Beringer) and all the main characters: Team Coach, Born-Again Pitcher, Voodoo Man, Pretty Boy, Willy Mays Hayes, and Wild Thing. Nice subplots and tensions are introduced between these unforgettable characters, after which the main subplot is presented between the catcher and his ex-fiancee. All of these characters have no idea that the team's new owner expects them to stink - they're all playing and coaching with determination. But Act One ends with them playing their first game and losing 9-0.
Act Two opens with a scene in the office where the owner is complaining to the General Manager that the team is bad, but it doesn't stink. And she complains that there is even some improvement. So she increases the complications for the characters by taking away their perks and making them fly in a propeller plane rather than a jet. While they continue to lose , subplots and tensions continue between the characters. However, they also continue to show improvement especially when Coach notices that Wild Thing's pitching would improve if he wore glasses. The owner responds with more complications - their propeller plane is replaced by a bus. By the end of Act Two, their record is 60 wins and 61 losses. That's when the plot is given its turning point - Coach finds out that none of them will have a job in baseball after the season ends because they were hired to lose. After Coach shares this with the players, the catcher says there is only one option available to them - win the whole darn thing (as winners, they could work for another team next season). The players will need 32 victories to stay in baseball after this season.
Act Three begins 31 victories later when they have to play the Yankees for the championship, who they've struggled against all season. This act is 41 minutes of inning-by-inning action, conflict, and suspense. In melodramatic fashion, they win! It's an awesome climax to a succession of dramatic suspense scenes. And in Hollywood subplot fashion, the catcher gets his girl.
 A Good Movie November 10, 2006
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
It was very good. It is one the kids would enjoy.
Classic "baseball misfit" movie July 5, 2006
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
Fun movie about baseball players who get a second/last chance. It's not Shakespeare, but who cares?
 Great cornball baseball April 24, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Okay, so "Major League" won't rate as one of the greatest comedies or baseball movies of all time. Still, this film is a must for all baseball enthusiasts. While Tom Berenger and Corbin Bernsen do admirable jobs, it's really Charlie Sheen, of all actors, who steals this enjoyable movie.
The comedy is low, most of the time, but it doesn't dwell on the scatalogical, as most comedies for the past few decades have. And you'll never listen to "Wild Thing" the same way again.
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