After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there.After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there.After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there.
- Awards
- 7 nominations
J.K. Simmons
- Frank Perry
- (as JK Simmons)
Carmine Giovinazzo
- Ken Strout
- (as Carmine D. Giovinazzo)
Bill E. Rogers
- Davis Birch
- (as Bill Rogers)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe manager of the New York Yankees is played by Augie Garrido, who befriended Kevin Costner while he was the head coach at Cal State Fullerton. Garrido has been the head coach at the University of Texas since 1997, and the two remain good friends.
- GoofsBaseball has a rule saying that any player who has been in the MLB for 10 or more years, and has played the last 5 or more consecutively with the same team has a full no-trade clause. Having played the last 19 for the Tigers, so they could not have traded Kevin Costner's character without his permission to do so.
- Quotes
Vin Scully: The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a Chapel.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: American Beauty/Blue Streak/For Love of the Game (1999)
- SoundtracksSummer Wind
Written by Johnny Mercer, Henry Mayer, Hans Bradtke
Published by WB Music Corp. o/b/o The Johnny Mercer and Edition Primus Rolf Budde KG (ASCAP)
Produced by Russ Titelman & Billy Williams
Performed by Lyle Lovett
Courtesy of Curb/MCA Records
Featured review
The best of Costner's sports efforts - a home run
I liked all the other Costner sports flicks a lot (It is his forte), but For the Love of the Game is tops! Bull Durham was a whole lot of baseball with a dose of romantic comedy. Field of Dreams was 100% baseball fantasy-drama. The current effort is a perfect mix of baseball and romance. It is really two movies woven skillfully into one which accounts for its relatively long runtime(137)for a film of this genre.
This is easily Costner's best effort in a long time and Kelly Preston is perfect opposite him. It's funny but every time I see Bull Durham again, the fact that Sarandon is now "with" Tim Robbins destroys the Sarandon-Costner chemistry for me. Fortunately Travolta is nowhere to be seen, so the Preston-Costner mix plays very well, especially since it is heavy on romance and very light on sex.
This is one of those movies I walk out of wondering what it was that caused it to be PG-13. No drugs, not a hint of violence, and no nudity. In retrospect, I suppose there was a gratuitous swear word or two at most and what romance doesn't have a suggestion of sex. For my money this is more G rated than what you see on network sit-coms these days, especially Fox. Take the family and enjoy!!!
This is easily Costner's best effort in a long time and Kelly Preston is perfect opposite him. It's funny but every time I see Bull Durham again, the fact that Sarandon is now "with" Tim Robbins destroys the Sarandon-Costner chemistry for me. Fortunately Travolta is nowhere to be seen, so the Preston-Costner mix plays very well, especially since it is heavy on romance and very light on sex.
This is one of those movies I walk out of wondering what it was that caused it to be PG-13. No drugs, not a hint of violence, and no nudity. In retrospect, I suppose there was a gratuitous swear word or two at most and what romance doesn't have a suggestion of sex. For my money this is more G rated than what you see on network sit-coms these days, especially Fox. Take the family and enjoy!!!
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- Sep 20, 1999
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- For the Love of the Game
- Filming locations
- Depot Place ramp over RR tracks, Bronx, NYC, USA(Location where Jane's car has stopped and Billy first meets her and fixes her car)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $80,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $35,188,640
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,041,685
- Sep 19, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $46,112,640
- Runtime2 hours 17 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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