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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302715446
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630271544X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: March 23, 1999
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 20334
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1992
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Description:
Sparky Smith is a baseball coach with a future in the game - behind him. Now Sparky?ll work for anyone who?ll hire him - and that just happens to be a Russian baseball team who barely know their way around a diamond! ' 'Sure to drive home some laughs.' ' - Chicago Sun Times
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Fun baseball movie
I enjoyed "The Comrades of Summer." It had better baseball than a lot of sports movies, and the characters were engaging and entertaining. The situation of a hotshot manager who is brought down to earth by his own greed and over-reaching is a cautionary tale for all of us who think the world is our oyster. Having a railroad track running through your practice field's infield gives new meaning to the term "bad hop." I thought this was very funny stuff.
Rating:  - ANOTHER GREAT MOVIE NOT ON DVD
I love this movie. Imagine a spoiled, pampered American baseball player getting talked into teaching the "All American Sport" to a team of Russian athletes, most of which have never played the game. I thought Joe Mantegna was great in this roll. The wheeling and dealing with the Russian "underworld" for just about everything they need is hilarious and very believable.
But as it goes with many of the great older movies, American studio execs still have not released this movie to DVD. ... Read More
Rating: - This one was very funny !
Come on guys ! This one was very funny ! Joe Mantegna teaching baseball to Russians ?! In Russia !? I am already louphing !
And some of the russians get offended ??? It is a comedy , with using GROTESQUE at it's best ! The " russian party " , after winning a game against cubans ( the fact itself - russians beat cubans in baseball , already hilarious ), when they drink vodka out of the bottles , than everybody sleeping and snoring ! Isn't it already a clue for you - it is A comedy . And it is ... Read More
Rating:  - not horrible
a fun movie. my biggest problem was with joe mantegna...i just couldn't picture him as a baseball player. i'm a huge baseball fan, and think you would like this film more if you are not really into baseball, but just have a general knowledg of the game. it certainly wasn't a "good" movie but it has funny scenes, and is playful. certainly not in the league of other baseball movies, though.
Rating: - Another Great Baseball Movie
This is not the greatest movie of all time, but whenever it replays on HBO, I can't NOT watch. Joe Mantegna is great in this, and it has a wonderful, sappy appeal. Why are movies about baseball so good, and the sport itself so booooring?
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302715446
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630271544X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: March 23, 1999
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 20334
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1992