The Sandlot
New kid in town Scotty Smalls is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his team. Together, they get themselves into many adventures involving rival teams, lifeguards, and a vicious dog.
22 August 1979, Topeka, Kansas, USA
19 July 1951, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
26 July 1982
21 December 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 October 1954, Independence, Missouri, USA
18 August 1957, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
14 June 1981
12 October 1981, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
23 August 1980, Auburn, California, USA
May 10, 2016
It's a bonafide masterpiece that warrants admiration, even two decades after its release.
May 07, 2014
You feel as if you're being smothered in cotton candy by a director obsessed with infantility and who cannot bear to face the reality of childhood.
May 07, 2014
A solid double rather than a grand slam, The Sandlot remains a refreshing antidote to the daily round of contract squabbles on the sports page.
May 07, 2014
Several of the hard issues involving childhood -- getting accepted in a new neighborhood, getting accepted buy a new stepdad -- are handled with sensitivity.
March 26, 2009
Sweet and sincere, the film is also a remarkably shallow wade, rife with incident and slim on substance.
May 07, 2014
The kids even have their own treehouse, which means that the production designer is the only person connected with this project who actually went out on a limb.
February 09, 2006
Ever since Stand by Me, it seems that every Boy's Own yarn is deemed incomplete without a nostalgic, pseudo-ironic voice-over waxing lyrical about the mythology of short pants and acne.
May 07, 2014
There's a snappy change-of-pace gag involving a little guy and a nubile lifeguard, but the screams and barks and fraudulent emotions grow wearying.
March 29, 2016
The Sandlot is just a fun, funny film that holds plenty of family appeal because it has a wholesome Norman Rockwell vibe and, as with any good sports film, you don't have to love the game to love the film.
May 07, 2014
The Sandlot is a safe, wholesome, patriotic family picture about baseball, and if there is an original scene, it escaped my attention.
May 07, 2014
In The Sandlot's nostalgia for simpler times, a single-sex world seems to be a key component.
May 07, 2014
Any of Charles Schulz's baseball-oriented Peanuts strips contains more understanding of baseball and more insight into children, as well as more pointed fun.
