Entre el amor y el juego

Título original: For Love of the Game

1999
A
2h 17min

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Baseball Drama Romance Sport

Después de 19 años de jugar el juego que ha amado toda su vida, el lanzador de los Tigres de Detroit Billy Chapel tiene que decidir si va a arriesgarlo todo y ponerlo todo por ahí.Después de 19 años de jugar el juego que ha amado toda su vida, el lanzador de los Tigres de Detroit Billy Chapel tiene que decidir si va a arriesgarlo todo y ponerlo todo por ahí.Después de 19 años de jugar el juego que ha amado toda su vida, el lanzador de los Tigres de Detroit Billy Chapel tiene que decidir si va a arriesgarlo todo y ponerlo todo por ahí.

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Premios
- 7 nominaciones en total

Curiosidades
According to Kevin Costner, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was becoming agitated that the Yankees would be seen losing in a movie filmed on location at Yankee Stadium. Costner said he was able to calm Steinbrenner down by explaining that Billy Chapel, and not necessarily the game itself, was the movie's major focus. Costner also explained that the game would mean nothing to the Yankees, and that it wasn't played as a "Winner Take All" scenario. Costner convinced Steinbrenner that in the movie's universe, the Yankees would clinch the AL East division the next day, keeping alive their World Series chances. Costner said that he later received a Yankees 1999 World Series ring as a thank-you gift from Steinbrenner.

Pifias
Baseball has a rule saying that any player who has been in the MLB for 10 or more years, and has played the last 5 or more consecutively with the same team has a full no-trade clause. Having played the last 19 for the Tigers, so they could not have traded Kevin Costner's character without his permission to do so.

Citas
Vin Scully: The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a Chapel.

Conexiones
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: American Beauty/Blue Streak/For Love of the Game (1999)

Banda sonora
Summer Wind
Written by Johnny Mercer, Henry Mayer, Hans Bradtke
Published by WB Music Corp. o/b/o The Johnny Mercer and Edition Primus Rolf Budde KG (ASCAP)
Produced by Russ Titelman & Billy Williams
Performed by Lyle Lovett
Courtesy of Curb/MCA Records

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9/10

9 on a scale of 10

I would have to say that I have seen very few movies better than For Love of the Game. My favorite genre is Romantic Comedy. This wasn't a comedy, but it was feel good. It was light drama and it was extremely well done.

Costner portrayed an aging baseball player with a romantic attachment to the game that reminded me of Robert Redford in The Natural - another movie I rated a 9. The symbolism of the movie was the notion of ending a romance for the game and transferring that romance to a woman. For him, at least, there was room for only one at a time. And, fortunately for her, his career was at the very end. Fortunately for us, we got to see his last game interspersed with flashbacks.

The movie was brilliantly done with respect to the actual game of baseball. I cannot recall having seen a sports movie that did such an excellent job of maintaining accuracy about the game. I honestly could have believed I was watching an actual game. The plays were realistic. The situations realistic. And, Vin Scully was sensational doing the play by play.

I've only rated a few movies as 10's in my life. One of them was Field of Dreams - another Costner vehicle. This movie wasn't far behind FOD. In fact, it was nearly as magical and it was a lot more romantic. Why the reviewers of IMDB only give it a 6.7 is beyond me.