The Sandlot

  • 1993


MOVIE IS fortysomething incomplete suburban sentimental predictable
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61 % Fresh
$ 34 Million
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Positive Reviews 21
Negative reviews 9
Average Rating 3.2/5
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3.8
Old baseball wisdom: The best teams win with strong fundamentals. So do the best movies. EW
3.2
Those in the mood to return to the age of innocence might want to try The Sandlot. EW
3.8
This is a movie... that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apa .. Rogerebert
1.5
Ever since Stand by Me, it seems that every Boys Own yarn is deemed incomplete without a nostalgic, pseudo ironic voice over waxing lyrical about the .. Time Out
4.5
The Sandlot isnt well made but its alive with dopey, summertime spirit.
1.5
Older kids and overgrown ones too probably will notice that nothing much ever happens in this belabored suburban variation on The Little Rascals.
4.5
A scruffy underdog yarn that will appeal not only to kids but also to their thirty or fortysomething parents. The Hollywood Reporter
3.0
The Sandlot is a movie with a comfortable working knowledge of the term family entertainment.
1.5
Nothing about his modest coming of age comedy demands anything like this awestruck approach. The New York Times
0.5
The kids even have their own treehouse, which means that the production designer is the only person connected with this project who actually went out ..
2.0
For every Field of Dreams there are a dozen lesser, completely incomprehensible baseball movies. This is one of them.
1.5
Predictable as the movie is, the Field of Dreams quality is not the only thing to like about The Sandlot. ReelViews
5.0
This is one of the best family entertainment films to come out in recent years. Lariat
4.5
If you can accept The Sandlot on its own terms, as a sentimental, nostalgic look at growing up... youll have fun. More importantly, young audiences wi .. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
Its a bonafide masterpiece that warrants admiration, even two decades after its release. Cinema Crazed
1.3
Its messages of anti bullying, befriending losers, and pretending the fat kid stuffing Ho hos into his mouth doesnt make you sick are as timeless as t .. Film Freak Central
4.5
The Sandlot is scene after scene after scene of nostalgia glasses viewed perfection. Film School Rejects
3.1
The comedy is broad, cartoonish, and quite funny in a faux Little Rascals manner. The movie is almost completely derivative, but thats part of the fun .. Movies Tv Guide
3.0
Good, with flashes of very good, overlaid with a particularly thick wash of nostalgia that stubbornly refuses to go obnoxiously cloying. Its a nice fi .. Antagony & Ecstasy
1.5
After a Porkys style segment dealing with puppy lust, the film then segues to its better second half. No La
3.1
Heres another 90s movie that was beloved by boys ... yet it probably wont hold the same charge for viewers not privy to that nostalgic vibe. Clclt
2.5
In The Sandlots nostalgia for simpler times, a single sex world seems to be a key component. Articles Chicago Tribune
4.5
Any of Charles Schulzs baseball oriented Peanuts strips contains more understanding of baseball and more insight into children, as well as more pointe .. People
2.5
The Sandlot is a safe, wholesome, patriotic family picture about baseball, and if there is an original scene, it escaped my attention. Articles Philly
3.8
A solid double rather than a grand slam, The Sandlot remains a refreshing antidote to the daily round of contract squabbles on the sports page. Articles Philly
2.5
You feel as if youre being smothered in cotton candy by a director obsessed with infantility and who cannot bear to face the reality of childhood. Articles Baltimore Sun
1.5
It throws a proverbial curveball at convention, relying instead on baseballs ultimate companion nostalgia to pluck its emotional and memorable strings .. Esquire
4.5
In this well crafted movie, a strong cohesive ensemble makes the team likable. Guiry as Scotty is especially good. Articles Sun Sentinel
4.5
The Sandlot almost does for baseball what A Christmas Story does for the holiday season. Evans clearly can still feel what it was like to be a kid, an .. Hartford Courant
3.8
The Sandlot is just a fun, funny film that holds plenty of family appeal because it has a wholesome Norman Rockwell vibe and, as with any good sports .. Family Home Theater
4.5
This is a movie for anyone who has ever loved baseball and for anyone who enjoys the American Graffiti/Stand by Me style of narrative. Highly recommen .. Dvd Ign
3.1
Several of the hard issues involving childhood getting accepted in a new neighborhood, getting accepted buy a new stepdad are handled with sensitivity .. Spokesman-Review (Washingt ..
5.0
For kids of the 1990s, there is no greater baseball movie than this coming of age tale about a lonely fifth grader who makes lifelong friends by playi .. Coed Magazine



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