Directed by David M. Evans, The Sandlot is unfortunately not a movie highly recognized in the bureaucratic world of cinema. It's generally a family film almost everyone has probably seen once or twice on television. When I think of this movie, I do think of my earlier youth, though I can never pinpoint when I first watched it. No one could find a more simple and yet more meaningful movie than this about the lasting friendship of several goofy young boys who bond over baseball, excursions to the public pool (remember Wendy Peffercorn?), tobacco-filled carnival rides, and the retrieval of a ball lost in the territory of the Beast. The soundtrack includes oldies but goodies, such as This Magic Moment by The Drifters and Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. I always listen to these songs and wish I lived back then -- but maybe that's just me. If you ask anyone what the most memorable part of the movie is, he or she will most likely point to the end, when Benny jumps over the Beast's fence to grab the lost ball signed by the Great Bambino himself and runs for his life all throughout the town, with Beast and the other boys chasing after his bangin' black Chuck Taylors. An American classic is what The Sandlot is, and if you haven't seen it yet, I think it's on YouTube ;)Man, base up you blockheads!
Amanda
I remember watching this movie with hiram! We were young lads trying to find something in common with eachother. What a better way to bring two dominiricans together than with baseball? jaja ^_^
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