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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Excellent, smart action film.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is a fictional character study, nostalgia piece, and inspirational story. The reason it works is not so much the novelty of the plot or situations, but the actors and the physical settings.Rarely has a film been cast so very well.Mark Harmon, fine actor and former star USC quarterback plays a baseball player.One of America's very best actresses, Jodie Foster plays his older friend.Another of the top American actresses, Blair Brown plays his mother (when he was small).The very appealing John A. Shea (think of his portrayal of Robert F. Kennedy or his co-star part on the Spuerman series) is his father.The really lovely, Southern seductress Beth Broderick (former co-star of Sabrina and so often well-cast as the beauty on series such as From the earth to the Moon) is perfectly cast - as is Jonathan Silverman in a Summer of '42 part.Harmon and Foster are opposites in so many ways - in life as well as their characters - yet they're both so unselfish, so singular as personalities - Mark Hamill was born to play the taciturn disciplinarian General Black Jack Pershing leader of America's military in our first World War, and Jodie Foster was born to play a very pretty poetry editor of a literary quarterly in the Village in the 1950s - and I don't think they share a scene together here (he plays the boy as a 38 year old - and we don't see her after she's in her mid-20s) yet we feel them together throughout the film - they dominate the film.Such is the appeal of Harmon that we can see his character wholly irresponsible and really wanting to dump the business of his boyhood mentor's urn of ashes upon his mother - and yet like him very much.Such is the appeal of Foster that we can hear her utter every silly clichéd sentiment of a girl of that age and that time - and yet think she's really worth caring for - we can fall in love with this young woman whom we might really think an idiot in real life.But Foster is so obviosly NOT an idiot, that she lends intelligence to a cliché - and Harmon is so obviously a responsible sober responsible man that he lends this to his often drunken, prostitute-visiting character.They lift this movie to something special and really worth watching.I'd love to see Harmon and Foster share the same movie again. They're so different, both highly appealing, both very distinctive.You'll like this movie.

i am so glad that many people consider this movie a great find and a sleeper. i grew up in the Philadelphia area and actually could relate very well to the plot. i.e. prep school and the mainline,very realistic. this is one of my favorite movies and yes i do have a copy of it. highly recommend. probably one of the best works for both Jodie foster and mark Harmon. i am amazed that it was never that popular. oh well what do i know. i am not a movie professional critic. i think sometimes in this day of age movies need to have violence and sex to make them truly successful. what ashame. like i said both Jodie foster and mark Harmon do a great job in this movie. also Harold Ramis is good in his supporting role. it is good to see that he has become a successful director.

The first time I saw this movie over 10 years ago, I thought the movie made no sense and boring. The problem was, I didn't try to understand the movie. Fast forward to the present, I watched the movie again and now understand the story. Life, love, exploration, death, it's all in the story. A boy's life shown from the perspective of a man. While the flashback scenes may seem long to some, they tell most important parts of the story. In my opinion, if the story was shot straight-forward (ie: from beginning to end) instead of using present/cut to flashback, the story would not be as effective. It won't win any awards but it's entertaining nonetheless.

I have done many reviews, some of them I really want to update, and one of the movies that I haven't updated is this one. Believe me that is a strange thing, because this movie is properly my favorite movie of all time. So for a couple of minutes listen and think about it, I want to update this review so enjoy...Storyline - 10/10 - The story goes something like this, Billy Wyatt is a washed up baseball player that never really amounted to anything. His life is now centered on living with a cocktail waitress as he himself explains it. One day his mother call him to tell him that his old babysitter who was there for him in many years and as well as being one he loved has killed herself and at her favorite place. She also left a note telling that she wanted Billy to have the ashes since he was the only one who knew what to do with them. So at night he returns home to his birth place and lives with his mom for some days. At first he doesn't know what to do with the ashes and hands them to his mother who tells him he is the only who could know and they were left for him. The story then follows Billy recalling the past with a lot of flashbacks through the movie. Those flashbacks are then in the end the final answer to where the ashes should be placed. While he does all this he slowly becomes whole again and finds the passion for baseball...Actors - 10/10 - Both Jodie Foster and Mark Harmon play their roles perfectly, you really feel with them, and you feel like the story is really told to you. They both show the feelings they should and they really do almost feel real to the viewer the feelings are conveyed in a way not many can do these days. Apart from Jodie Foster and Mark Harmon the actor Jonathan Silverman should not be understated, his role as Alan Appleby is so spot on and even the old version played by Harold Ramis can't be understated. Of course Blair Brown and John Shea really do also steal away the story, they act so real like and it works all the way.Soundtrack - 10/10 - The soundtrack is comprised of many known songs through the years and of course they are all from that decade, but there are also some done by David Foster. David Foster's music cannot be understated, the theme of Stealing Home moves you in a way not many movies can, the other themes like Katie's Theme and Home Movies are also heartbreaking and heart restoring if you can say that. But nothing can really be done more right then the song for the Stealing Home theme "And When She Danced" it is properly one of the best romantic songs ever written for a movie and it is done right. Both David Foster and Marilyn Martin sings it and moves you the way it you should be moved.Special Effects - N/A - Well I guess there are some camera poses and such and different lighting but this movie isn't an action movie, there isn't any special effects so to speak of, and of course there really doesn't need to so there isn't much to say about this part of the review the lighting and the camera angles and poses are well directed so nothing bad there.Overall - 10/10 - Overall this movie is my favorite and one I recommend fondly, it really should be watched once. Now a day it can be a little rare but should you be lucky enough to see it on a store shelf and you haven't seen it before buy it. I promise you a good time, don't look at rating, and even though this is a review don't create your own idea of the movie through this. But at least try and watch it, if you don't like it that's fine, a review is only a point from another viewer every person's opinion will vary, but I think at least you should try...