Sandlot

UPC: 024543405955

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Excellent For Children]

Summary: The Sandlot is sparsely narrated by the main character (now an adult) who occasionally drops in on the action to comment on events or help move the story along. Tom Guiry plays Scotty Smalls, the shy new kid on the block who wants to join the rowdy pickup baseball team that plays every day in the neighborhood sandlot. But he doesn't know how to catch a baseball, and his stepfather (Dennis Leary) is too busy to teach him. He tries out for the sandlot gang anyway, and though he isn't very good, it turns out he's lucky: there happen to be only eight of them, and nine makes a team. The summer passes blissfully as Scotty learns to play ball under the wing of Benny Rodriguez (Mike Vitar), the oldest and best player, as well as Ham, Squints, Repeat, and the rest of the kid-eccentrics. The skies darken, however, when Benny literally knocks the stuffing out of the team's only baseball, a sign of impending doom, or worse, bad luck. Wanting to set things right, Scotty returns home and "borrows" his stepfather's ball, which he promptly uses to hit his first home run, knocking the ball clear out of the sandlot into mean old Mr. Mertle (James Earl Jones)'s junkyard, home to Mertle's legendary guard dog The Beast. Scotty admits that he took the ball without asking, and he naively explains that his stepfather will want it back since it had a woman's name written on it: some lady named Babe Ruth. Horror-stricken, the sandlot gang mobilizes to fetch the autographed ball from the clutches of The Beast, building a series of mechanical ball-retrieval machines which get progressively more complicated and preposterous as The Beast's size grows in their imaginations. ~ Anthony Reed, Rovi

Category: Children's/Family

Features: Full-length movie
Kids captioning in English and Spanish
Easy to play

Sandlot

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 07/10/2007

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

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

Runtime: 101 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- The Sandlot
1. Legends (Main Titles)
2. The New Kid
3. The Sandlot Kids
4. Mom's Advice
5. A Lesson From Dad
6. Meet the Gang
7. The Weenie
8. The Thing Behind the Fence
9. Legend of the Beast
10. Wendy Peffercorn
11. Squint's Big Move
12. The Fourth of July
13. A Challenge
14. The Hard Stuff
15. An Omen
16. The Babe's Ball
17. Buying Some Time
18. Primitive Attempts
19. Sucking It Up
20. Hanging Out
21. Science Against Nature
22. Benny's Dream
23. Benny & the Beast
24. Saving the Beast
25. Mr. Mertle's Deal
26. Things Work Out
27. The Gang Grows Up
28. End Titles

Anthony Reed

A summertime counterpart to the wintry A Christmas Story (1983), The Sandlot is one of those quaint coming-of-age movies that looks back on childhood follies and adventures through rose-colored glasses. Also like A Christmas Story, The Sandlot is blessed with its own peculiar group of stereotypical characters who seem to be taken from everyone's childhood, and each tall tale seems taller than the next, warped in the same cleverly childlike way. In particular, the black-and-white silent movie sequence where we are shown how The Beast got so big and mean is a home run. ~ Anthony Reed, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Keith Campbell  Actor 
Garret Pearson  Actor 
Shari Rhodes  Actor 
Chuck Fick  Actor 
Herb Muller  Actor 
Cleve Hall  Actor 
Maury Wills  Actor 
Marley Shelton  Actor 
Dennis Williams  Actor 
Arliss Howard  Actor 
Wil Horneff  Actor 
Robbie T. Robinson  Actor 
Bob Apisa  Actor 
Daniel Zacapa  Actor 
Victor di Mattia  Actor 
Mark Burg  Executive Producer 
David Mickey Evans  Director 
David Mickey Evans  Screenwriter 
David Newman  Composer (Music Score) 
Cathleen Summers  Executive Producer 
Chris Zarpas  Executive Producer 
Robert Gunter  Screenwriter 
William S. Gilmore  Producer 
Dale de la Torre  Producer 
Tom Guiry  Actor 
Mike Vitar  Actor 
Patrick Renna  Actor 
Chauncey Leopardi  Actor 
Karen Allen  Actor 
Marty York  Actor 
James Earl Jones  Actor 
Brandon Adams  Actor 
Grant Gelt  Actor 
Shane Obedzinski  Actor 
Denis Leary  Actor 
Art La Fleur  Actor 

Country: USA