Everyone's Hero

Theatrical Release Date: 2006 09 15 (USA)

UPC: 024543404910

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: G   Contains:[Suitable for Children]

Summary: A young baseball fan sets out on a cross-country quest to recover Babe Ruth's stolen bat and restore his father's good name in a computer animated family adventure that shows you're never too young to be a hero. Yankee Irving (voice of Jake T. Austin) may not be the best base-runner in his neighborhood, but his love of the game is about to lead him on the adventure of a lifetime when a legendary baseball bat is stolen from Yankee stadium on his father's watch. Now determined to get back the bat from the crooked security guard who swiped it (voice of William H. Macy) and place it back in the grip of the best hitter in baseball history, young Yankee is about to find out just what it's really like to walk out on the diamond to the sounds of a thousand cheering fans. Filmed under the title Yankee Irving and originally slated to be directed by the late Christopher Reeve, Everyone's Hero was completed by directors Colin Brady and Dan St. Pierre when Reeve passed away as the result of a heart attack in 2004, and features additional voice work by actors Whoopi Goldberg, Mandy Patinkin, Raven, the late Dana Reeve, Rob Reiner, and Brian Dennehy. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Children's/Family

Features: Commentary by co-directors Colin Brady and Daniel St. Pierre, and writers Jeff Hand and Robert Kurtz Remembering Chris: Tribute to Christopher Reeve featurette
Making of Everyone's Hero: The Little Guy's Journey featurette

Everyone's Hero

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 03/20/2007

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen, 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 87 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1, Side A -- Everyone's Hero: Fullscreen
1. Stuck With a Loser [3:12]
2. How It Happened [1:06]
3. The Babe and Darlin' [2:18]
4. I'm Talkin' Here! [4:14]
5. They Just Keep Swinging [2:10]
6. The Locker Room [1:34]
7. The Last One to See Darlin' [1:04]
8. Going, Going...Foul! [2:23]
9. Bat Thieves [5:14]
10. Looking for Lefty [6:42]
11. The Talking Bat [3:57]
12. A Seventh-Inning Stretch [3:16]
13. Yankee's Decision [5:28]
14. Screwie Gets Stolen [3:23]
15. Lonnie "The Rooster" Brewster [4:10]
16. Chicago Bound [3:38]
17. Rained Out [1:28]
18. Shadow Ball [4:34]
19. Where's Darlin'? [4:52]
20. This Dream Isn't Broke [4:55]
21. The Run of His Life [1:38]
22. The Next Battery [7:21]
23. The Rest Is History [:32]
24. End Titles [7:48]
Disc #1, Side B -- Everyone's Hero: Widescreen
1. Stuck With a Loser [3:12]
2. How It Happened [1:06]
3. The Babe and Darlin' [2:18]
4. I'm Talkin' Here! [4:14]
5. They Just Keep Swinging [2:10]
6. The Locker Room [1:34]
7. The Last One to See Darlin' [1:04]
8. Going, Going...Foul! [2:23]
9. Bat Thieves [5:14]
10. Looking for Lefty [6:42]
11. The Talking Bat [3:57]
12. A Seventh-Inning Stretch [3:16]
13. Yankee's Decision [5:28]
14. Screwie Gets Stolen [3:23]
15. Lonnie "The Rooster" Brewster [4:10]
16. Chicago Bound [3:38]
17. Rained Out [1:28]
18. Shadow Ball [4:34]
19. Where's Darlin'? [4:52]
20. This Dream Isn't Broke [4:55]
21. The Run of His Life [1:38]
22. The Next Battery [7:21]
23. The Rest Is History [:32]
24. End Titles [7:48]

Derek Armstrong

It would be easy to dismiss Everyone's Hero as a corny children's tale about talking baseball equipment -- that is, if it weren't the project Christopher Reeve was working on when he died. He didn't get very far into it, but since Reeve is one of three credited directors, Everyone's Hero has been transformed into a kind of final signature from the beloved actor-director. Truth be told, only a real cynic could frown too harshly on this movie. It walks the fine line between sweet and precious, but mostly just feels old-fashioned, as the digital animation is a good five years behind the modern pace. Perhaps this is appropriate for a film set in 1932, whose task is to get a 2006 audience interested in Babe Ruth and Depression-era baseball. That 2006 audience turned out not to be interested, if the anemic box-office totals are any indication, but purists and Yankee fans might well get a kick out of the way Everyone's Hero romanticizes baseball's roots. The period design is lovingly created, and the young boy's quest to return a lucky bat to Babe Ruth is enough narrative propulsion to keep things moving along. (Though it's hard to imagine how the slugger could get too attached to any one piece of lumber, given how bats tend to shatter in the course of their normal use). The journey that's actually more interesting, using Toy Story logic, is that of Screwie the talking baseball (voiced by Rob Reiner), who achieved his dream of "reaching the Majors," only to be fouled out of the park and abandoned in a sand lot. With additional voices provided by such heavyweights as Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams, Everyone's Hero has enough major-league talent, but its minor-league execution confines it to the role of underdog. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Richard Kind  Actor 
Cherise Booth  Actor 
Ralph Coppola  Actor 
Ray Iannicelli  Actor 
Conor J. White  Actor 
Will Reeve  Actor 
Ray Iannicelli  Actor 
Marcus Maurice  Actor 
Ed Helms  Actor 
Amanda Parsons  Actor 
Gideon Jacobs  Actor 
Jesse Bronstein  Actor 
Richard Kind  Actor 
Ron Tippe  Actor 
Jason Harris  Actor 
Stephen Brown  Executive Producer 
Christopher Reeve  Director 
Christopher Reeve  Executive Producer 
John Debney  Composer (Music Score) 
Ron Tippe  Producer 
Igor Khait  Producer 
Dana Reeve  Executive Producer 
Janet Healy  Executive Producer 
Daniel St. Pierre  Director 
Jerry Davis  Executive Producer 
Jeff Hand  Screenwriter 
Morris Berger  Executive Producer 
Colin Brady  Director 
Bob Kurtz  Screenwriter 
Rob Reiner  Actor 
Whoopi Goldberg  Actor 
Jake T. Austin  Actor 
William H. Macy  Actor 
Mandy Patinkin  Actor 
Raven Symone  Actor 
Robert Wagner  Actor 
Forest Whitaker  Actor 
Brian Dennehy  Actor 
Dana Reeve  Actor 
Joe Torre  Actor 
Robin Williams  Actor 

Country: USA