Friday, July 6, 2018

July Pick: A League of Their Own


Trust me, folks, I scoured every upcoming-movies source out there to find a new film we'd likely enjoy that hasn't been in town for so long that many of you will already have seen it. I found nothing suitable. Then I time-traveled back 26 years and found that A League of Their Own was coming to our town for a brief run. Fun fact: Given that our June pick was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from 1958, this marks the first time we will have seen vintage movies back to back.

As you likely recall, the 1992 comedy/drama is a fictional depiction of the adventures of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - which consisted of teams of all-female players that sprang up while men were overseas fighting World War II. Directed by the inimitable Penny Marshall, League stars Geena Davis, Madonna and Lori Petty as players and Tom Hanks as a hard-drinkin', tobacco-spittin' lout of a coach. Yup, he's the one who hollered, "There's no crying in baseball!"

The film historians among us will appreciate that this movie was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2012 for being "culturally, historically [and] aesthetically significant." 

When:    Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Where:   Yonge/Dundas Cineplex 
Time:      3:15 p.m. - gathering near the box office if you wish about 20 minutes earlier, or just going in and watching the film on your own.

Afterward, as usual these days, those who wish to nosh & natter afterwards will do so at Milestones, which is across the lobby from the Cineplex entrance. So if you plan to join us, don't take the escalator downward, just walk back by the box office and you'll spot the restaurant. Please notify me no later than 12 p.m. on Monday, July 9, if you plan to join the munchers, so I can make a reservation for the correct number of people.

Vintage Review in Rolling Stonehttps://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/a-league-of-their-own-113330/










1 comment: