ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELDÂ (PG)
D: William Dear
Buena Vista/Disney/Caravan (Irby Smith, Joe Roth & Roger
Birnbaum)
USA 🇺🇸 1994
102 mins
Fantasy/Sports
W: Holly Goldberg Sloan [based on a screenplay by Dorothy
Kingsley & George Wells]
DP:Â Matthew F. Leonetti
Ed: Bruce Green
Mus: Randy Edelman
PD:Â Dennis Washington
Danny Glover (George Knox), Tony Danza (Mel Clark), Brenda
Fricker (Maggie Nelson), Christopher Lloyd (Al Angel), Ben Johnson (Hank Murphy), Jay O. Sanders (Ranch Wilder), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Roger Bomman)
Sentimental remake of a 1950's Clarence Brown movie about an
unsuccessful baseball team enlisting the help of angels to turn their season around.
The story is well suited to Disney's family target audience
and isn't a bad viewing for a rainy day, but its main fanbase is likely to be in America rather than elsewhere around the globe. Â A similar story was done to much better effect in 1989's
Field Of Dreams.
5/10