Angels in the Outfield (1994 film)
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| Directed by | William Dear |
| Produced by | Irby Smith Joe Roth Roger Birnbaum |
| Screenplay by | Holly Goldberg Sloan |
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Angels in the Outfield by Dorothy Kingsley George Wells |
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| Music by | Randy Edelman |
| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Edited by | Bruce Green |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $24,000,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $50,236,831 |
Angels in the Outfield (known simply as Angels in some countries) is a 1994 remake of the 1951 film of the same name. The film stars Danny Glover, Tony Danza and Christopher Lloyd (the two latter actors previously worked together on Taxi), and features several future stars, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt (in the lead), Adrien Brody, Matthew McConaughey, and Neal McDonough. It spawned two direct-to-video sequels, Angels in the Endzone and Angels in the Infield. This film was released less than a month before the 1994 MLB Baseball Players Strike, which forced the league to cancel the playoffs and the World Series. This film features a fictional playoff race that never would have been played out in real life.
Young foster child Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his friend J.P. (Milton Davis, Jr.) love to sneak into baseball games of the hopelessly dreadful California Angels.
Still in limited contact with his widower father, Roger asks when they will be a family again. His father replies sarcastically, "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant." Taking his father's words literally, Roger prays for God to help the Angels win. After he prays, a star, unseen by Roger, twinkles in the sky.
Then, in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays which Roger and J.P. attend, he sees a group of angels led by Al (Christopher Lloyd) helping the team. Although Roger can see them quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences.
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