The Perfect Game
Amid the poverty of Monterrey, Mexico, a ragtag group of boys, thanks to the guidance of a coach (Clifton Collins Jr.), becomes the first non-U.S. baseball team to win the Little League World Series.
16 October 1968, Hawaii, USA
20 January 1993, Torrance, California, USA
29 June 1954, Seal Beach, California, USA
17 June 1967, Concord, California, USA
25 March 1975, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
25 December 1993, Pomona, California, USA
25 September 1994, Palisades, New York, USA
12 July 1991, Pasadena, California, USA
12 September 1963, Caguas, Puerto Rico
27 May 1936, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
16 June 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 March 1943, Cuba
11 May 1952, Milford-on-the-sea, Hampshire, England, UK
1 July 1969, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
31 October 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
9 September 1976, Laredo, Texas, USA
13 September 1967, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
28 April 1996, Anaheim, California, USA
December 02, 2013
The Perfect Game proves that you don't always have to reach for lofty heights to work. It's certainly not a classic. It's a simple pleasure for those times when that's all you need.
April 30, 2010
Director William Dear is not one to miss a sentimental beat.
April 16, 2010
Anyone much older than, say, 10, will likely find the underdog saga sappy and manipulative, not to mention filled with sports movie cliches, including the following statement: "It will take a miracle to make them into a real team."
December 29, 2011
A welcome addition to the expanding genre of baseball films.
May 13, 2014
No ironic detachment for William Dear's latest film: It may have every cliché in the book, but The Perfect Game means everything it says.
May 07, 2010
Notable only for being a catalog of just about every kid-pic cliche' ever committed to film.
April 19, 2010
[From] the second minute of the movie I knew every single thing that was going to happen and there was not a single surprise.
May 12, 2014
It's all stencil work without a single touch of novelty, inspiration or originality.
August 13, 2010
Packed with everything you'd want from an inspiring sports story. The pieces aren't put together as neatly as one would hope, but the film easily achieves the intended effect.
April 16, 2010
So overwhelmed by its own based-on-actual-events tale that it can't find the tone to tell it effectively.
April 25, 2011
It's hard not to root for an underdog, especially a relentlessly optimistic one, and the reality is Game has a lot of heart. But not much in the way of legs.
April 16, 2010
It's an unabashedly corny but occasionally stirring dramedy based on the true-life story of scrappy young baseball players from Mexico.
