Mostly hard to watch because it isn't available anywhere. I have a VHS copy of it, but it's hard to get my hands on a working VCR.
This was filmed in my home town in Wisconsin. My Brother and several of my friends and acquaintances were in it as extras. I admit, it was cool seeing my home town on the screen, but that is where my fondness for this movie ends. I gave it 2 stars because I have a bias about the location. People that gave it higher ratings are just plain dumb.
Most of this movie is about Tommy coming home and getting involved in the world of Men's Fastpitch Softball. WOW!!!! The on-field parts of this movie sucked! What made it even worse was that at the time Wausau was a legit hotbed for men's fastpitch softball. One of the teams from the Wausau League at the time was very literally the best men's fastpitch team in the world (County Materials won 2 World Championships and was runner up 2 more times between 2000 and 2006). There were several leagues and a lot of highly competitive teams. THERE WAS EVEN A TEAM NAMED THE MARKSMEN!!! Why didn't Jay seek any input from the local talent to add some authenticity to his movie? The elite softball guys in the movie didn't have any lines - so they must have been ringers in softball, right? Wrong! They sucked. As a fastptich player myself, I was insulted to see the disrespect shown to the game I loved. There were 40 guys that could have stepped in and given an authentic pitching performance, but instead they went with the flat and embarrassingly fake portrayal by the "experts"
I'm writing this review of a 1997 movie in 2022 because I want to show my kids and some friends this movie that was filmed in Wausau at places where we actually spend a LOT of time. My kids might not ever get to see it because I can't find a VCR and I can't even order it on Amazon on DVD.
