Watch: For Love of the Game 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – A Detroit pitcher Billy Chapel, reflects on his life in major league baseball, after he finds out his girlfriend moves to London for a job. Thus forcing the ball player to analyze his life and how his career as a player, and his life without her will change, thus altering his priorities between his career winding to a close, choosing what his path will be, the love of baseball or the love of his life?.
Plot: A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
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This Film Is About Life
This film is much more than a beautiful film about baseball. It’s about life….about the continuity of life… about moving on… about taking stock of who you are, and who you are going to be. Billy Chapel stands there, quietly, introspectively, doing what he has always done, what he wants to always do, but knowing at the same time, through his reflections and his actions, that things change nevertheless. At the crux of the pennant game for the Yankees, this Detroit pitcher stands on the pitcher’s mound, knowing, seeing, the flow of life. His team sold, knowing his days for the Tigers are over, that his catcher will likely not be there again, that his great love is leaving, that her daughter has grown, his friend playing now for the Yankees, even the last pitcher he faces – who began as a Tiger bat boy for the team his father played for, the Tigers – a boy whom the announcers say has no idea of what this moment is, although he does, his team owner watching the last great game of summer… deciding… about the rest of his life. Through his comments, his thoughts, and his reflections, he evaluates not only where he is going, but who he is and what he will be. And at the precipice of the rest of his life, a perfect game in the balance, he finds it… what his life means. This film never fails to make me cry.
The best of Costner’s sports efforts – a home run
I liked all the other Costner sports flicks a lot (It is his forte), but For the Love of the Game is tops! Bull Durham was a whole lot of baseball with a dose of romantic comedy. Field of Dreams was 100% baseball fantasy-drama. The current effort is a perfect mix of baseball and romance. It is really two movies woven skillfully into one which accounts for its relatively long runtime(137)for a film of this genre.This is easily Costner’s best effort in a long time and Kelly Preston is perfect opposite him. It’s funny but every time I see Bull Durham again, the fact that Sarandon is now “with” Tim Robbins destroys the Sarandon-Costner chemistry for me. Fortunately Travolta is nowhere to be seen, so the Preston-Costner mix plays very well, especially since it is heavy on romance and very light on sex.
This is one of those movies I walk out of wondering what it was that caused it to be PG-13. No drugs, not a hint of violence, and no nudity. In retrospect, I suppose there was a gratuitous swear word or two at most and what romance doesn’t have a suggestion of sex. For my money this is more G rated than what you see on network sit-coms these days, especially Fox. Take the family and enjoy!!!
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 17 min (137 min)
Budget 50000000
Revenue 46112640
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Romance, Sport
Director Sam Raimi
Writer Michael Shaara, Dana Stevens
Actors Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly
Country United States
Awards 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo, C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 50D 5245, Kodak Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm