Posted on 04/03/2016 11:08:12 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- Forty years have elapsed since a washed-up minor league pitcher-turned-pool cleaner named Morris Buttermaker first pulls his convertible Cadillac (no trunk cover) into the parking lot of a Little League baseball diamond early in the morning in the movie's opening scene, pops open a can of Budweiser, pours some Jim Beam bourbon into the beer for good measure, smokes a cheap stogie (courtesy of a light from Kelly Leak), and agrees to manage the lowly Bears in the ultra competitive North Valley League, at the urging of a city councilman and much to the disgust of Roy Turner (Vic Morrow), the Yankees manager, and the league organizer, Cleveland (Joyce Van Patten).
What unfolds on the screen from there is a journey equal parts hilarious and profane, irreverent and shocking, heart-tugging and authentic -- a film that never feels dated, even if Amanda Whurlitzer is seen wearing bell bottom jeans on the mound during a practice
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I was 15.
This is one of the movies that helped begin our slide downward.
A mainstream, even family film, that was entertaining presented low moral standards and deviancy as normal, even heroic.
I saw this at a drive-in movie theater. I remember going with my brother and there being about 7 of us in the car, and me realizing quickly into the movie with the language, drinking, etc.., my mother would NOT have liked us going.
she’s bad news “bare”.
Supposedly representing the mores of a small Georgia town in 1948.
A slut gives herself to every guy in town. The high school BMOC shunned by his girlfriend who won't let him go all the way before they get married, goes out with the slut and then falls in love with her.
She stops giving it out to every boy in town, so they rape and kill her in revenge.
I only found out the plot points by reading it on Wikipedia. I'm glad I got bored/disgusted before I got too far into it.
That's what the producer Ron Silverman decided were "good ole' family values" back in Georgia in '48.
I remember that movie.
I never saw it. I was too young for R-Rated movies.
It got good reviews.
Never seen it.
"Roy Turner (Vic Morrow), the Yankees manager..."
Say, didn't Vic Morrow get killed by helicopter blades while on a film shoot?
As a kid I remember Far North West Georgia from the early 50’s. I guess I missed out on all that stuff somehow but I did catch some rock-salt while stealing a watermelon. A learning moment.
Killed on Twilight Zone
I loved that movie and especially Tanner Boyle.........
It was good movie. Not as good as Paper Moon.
In ‘76 I was twenty. Working hard.
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