Major League
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball fields the worst team she can find so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
26 October 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
August 2, 1967 in Rochester, Minnesota, USA
3 September 1965, New York City, New York, USA
25 January 1926, Texas, USA
17 July 1969, New York City, New York, USA
19 February 1960
17 February 1954, Burbank, California, USA
2 June 1954, San Mateo, California, USA
1958, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, USA
2 January 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1978, Brookfield, Wisconsin, USA
31 July 1962, Orlando, Florida, USA
20 October 1958
12 June 1956, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
March 16, 2011
If you're looking for sophisticated wit keep going, but Major League is pleasant, undemanding fun.
May 06, 2014
It skims along agreeable surfaces, expertly balancing its comedy with melodrama and fulfilling expectations right on schedule.
March 14, 2007
Slick predictability is about all it has in mind, down to the last trite freeze-frame.
November 23, 2009
The absurdity of the Indians winning the pennant in 1989 helped make the film a lot of fun, and it was a great little fantasy for Tribe fans back in the day.
October 31, 2016
Amiable but predictable.
May 06, 2014
Ward directs his actors as adroitly as he has written for them, and the vulnerability that he allows his three stars to reveal is really what makes the movie work.
March 20, 2013
It has its moments, but it also has long, slow stretches where you feel like standing up and wandering around and maybe going out to hunt up a beer. That's fine for baseball, but it's not the way movies are supposed to work.
March 20, 2013
Sheen, as an ace fireball pitcher called Wild Thing by the adoring fans, is excellent; so is Bernsen as a star-struck third baseman, whose portfolio is more important that a hard grounder in the hole.
August 01, 2008
Even though too many jokes fall flat under the weight of predictability, its sheer comic energy manages to entertain.
March 16, 2011
Major League doesn't try too hard or aim too high, but it is pretty funny.
May 24, 2009
A meat and potatoes '80s movie, that maybe doesn't 'taste great,' but at least is 'less filling.' [Blu-ray]
March 20, 2013
Somebody should tell Ward that winning isn't everything. Character is. And this is what his movie lacks.
