Major League

(1989)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 910 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1989

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Дэвид С. Уорд

Cast: Том Беренджер, Чарли Шин, Корбин Бернсен, Margaret Whitton, Джеймс Гэммон, Рене Руссо, Уэсли Снайпс, Charles Cyphers, Chelcie Ross, Деннис Хэйсберт

Plot

When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.

Rachel Phelps is the new owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. However, she has nefarious plans: She wants to move the team to Miami for the warmer climate and a new stadium. To justify the move, the team must lose--and lose badly. So she assembles the worst possible team. Among these are a past-his-prime catcher with bad knees, a shrewd but past-his-prime pitcher, a young tearaway pitcher--and felon--with a 100-mph fastball but absolutely no control, a third-baseman who is too wealthy and precious to dive, a voodoo-loving slugger who can't hit a curve ball, and an energetic-but-naive lead-off hitter and base-stealer who can't keep the ball on the ground. Against the odds, and after the inevitable initial failures, they iron out some of their faults and--much to Ms. Phelps' consternation--start to win.