The Sandlot
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| Directed by | David Mickey Evans |
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Mark Burg Chris Zarpas |
| Written by | David Mickey Evans Robert Gunter |
| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Anthony B. Richmond |
| Edited by | Michael A. Stevenson |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
| Box office | $33,832,313 |
The Sandlot is a 1993 American coming-of-age baseball comedy film co-written and directed by David M. Evans (who also narrated the film), which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary and James Earl Jones. The filming locations were in Glendale, Utah, Midvale, Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah.
It grossed $33 million worldwide and has become a cult film.
In the San Fernando Valley during the summer of 1962, Scotty Smalls is the new boy in the neighborhood, seeking desperately to fit in. He would be welcomed on the local sandlot baseball team that practices every day, which only has eight players. Smalls however, can't play baseball; on his first visit to the sandlot he finds himself in the outfield with a fly ball descending toward him which bounces off his glove, causing the other boys except Benny "the Jet" Rodriguez, the team's leader, to burst out laughing. Smalls, humiliated, leaves.
Smalls asks his stepfather to teach him to play, and while his stepdad agrees, Scott cannot successfully catch or throw the ball. Benny soon teaches him what he needs to know, and with Benny's support, he gets a place on the team. The other players include Hamilton "Ham" Porter, the heavyset short tempered catcher, Michael "Squints" Palladorus, the nerdy glasses-wearing shortstop, Ken "the Heater" DiNunez, the easygoing African American pitcher, Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClenna, the awkward third baseman, Bertram Grover Weeks, the rebellious second baseman, Timmy Timmons, the hapless first baseman, and Tommy "the Repeater" Timmons, the cheeky right outfielder, and Tommy's younger brother.
Meanwhile, behind a wall at the end of the sandlot is a backyard inhabited by "the Beast", an English Mastiff, a dog so large and savage that it has become a neighborhood legend. One day, the boys' last ball lands in the backyard of the Beast. Smalls attempts to retrieve it, but the others, knowing all about the Beast, stop him. That evening, they tell him all about the Beast, and that his owner, Mr. Mertle, got him when he was just a puppy when thieves were plaguing his junkyard, Mertle's Acres, and after a couple of weeks, the puppy became the Beast and he grew enormous and aggressive, killing and devouring the thieves, bones and all. Eventually, Squints' grandfather, who was the police chief at the time, had Mr. Mertle chain up the Beast in the backyard and keep him under his house forever. Smalls also learns that many baseballs ended up in the backyard, and then they just disappear.
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