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By Naomi & Herb*
Rappahannock News Writers
• For Love of the Game: 1999, PG-13, two hours and 18 minutes, Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly. Oh, Sigh...yet another tedious Kevin Costner baseball film, with many scenes of the overblown star to standing intently on the pitcher's mound, psyching himself up for another no hitter, despite the excruciating physical pain, Blah, Blah, Waah, Waah!
Costner is a totally self centered, almost washed up Detroit Tigers pitcher who has yet again lost the blonde of his dreams (maybe because he treats her like dirt!) but perseveres to pitch the winning game of his career. Kelly is the lost blonde (who ultimately comes back, of course, after the winning game) with a long term relationship with the jerk who doesn’t know how to treat a cabbage, much less a woman. Baseball player to blonde: "I wish you would go away, you make me feel distracted and weak.” And then he's surprised that she goes away!
John C. Reilly is wonderful as the catcher, there is great symbiosis between Costner and Reilly on screen. A few amusing scenes, a little too much cursing, a lot of sChlocky angel music during the "big game”. A baseball lover's dream, a film goer's nightmare. Herb found it mildly amusing, while Naomi gives it only a thumb in the eye, but she didn't like "Bull Durham" or "Field of dreams", either.
• The Hurricane: 1999 R Two and a-half hours, starring the fabulous Denzel Washington, who once again totally becomes his character. This film is based on the real life story of welterweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongfully accused of murdering three people during a robbery, and in the early 1960’s, imprisoned for life.
Dan Heydagh plays the police detective who dogs Carter mercilessly from childhood and is responsible, in large part, for his ultimate imprisonment. The movie offers total immersion into the boxer's life, with flashbacks between his childhood, early adulthood, prison and the present, in both black and white and color. Excellent music underscores the various
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