A League Of Their Own
Two sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
27 March 1925, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7 July 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
10 March 1966, New York City, New York, USA
22 May 1961, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 April 1964, USA
June 24, 2015
If director Penny Marshall were a baseball player, she'd probably be a scrappy catcher who plays steadily and reliably, always has her head in the game and usually comes through in the clutch.
May 06, 2014
The movie drones along uninvolvingly, as if it were erecting a monument, not telling a story.
March 20, 2013
What does it say about today's Hollywood when the most interesting character in a movie about a women's baseball team turns out to be a man?
March 20, 2013
Marshall's methods overwhelm the material, and what emerges is a movie utterly without personality. A unique chapter in American history becomes a movie as ordinary as they come.
March 19, 2013
This movie aims for the tear ducts and the funny bone as ruthlessly as the big action-fantasy hits go after the viscera.
March 20, 2013
Though amusing enough to avoid absolutely drowning in schmaltz, it's sad to see a film with potential lose its way in the late innings.
August 01, 2008
Hits about .250 with a few RBI, but more than its share of strikeouts.
March 19, 2013
Few of the other performers make an impression. A director who can lose Madonna in a crowd can't be said to appreciate charisma.
November 11, 2014
It is not Great Cinema, but it's really freaking good entertainment, smart without being brainy and nice without being saccharine.
March 19, 2013
It's a cinematic home run, certain to please filmgoers who don't know a catcher's mitt from an oven mitt.
May 06, 2014
League wants you to laugh more than anything else, and Hanks makes sure that you will.
May 06, 2014
Any roughness is smoothed over by the talented cast and a great deal of charm and affection for the era.
