The Sandlot [25th Anniversary] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: David Mickey Evans David Mickey Evans

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/06/2018
UPC:	0024543468448
Original Release:	1993
Source:	BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	12,939

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Guiry	Scotty Smalls
Mike Vitar	Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez,Older Benny
Patrick Renna	Hamilton `Ham' Porter
Chauncey Leopardi	Michael `Squints' Palledorous
Marty York	Alan `Yeah-Yeah' McClennan
Brandon Adams	Kenny DeNunez
Karen Allen	Mom
James Earl Jones	Mr. Mertle,Little League Punk 2
Denis Leary	Bill
Grant Gelt	Bertram Grover Weeks
Shane Obedzinski	Tommy `Repeat' Timmons
Victor DiMattia	Timmy Timmons
Art La Fleur	`The Babe'
Marlee Shelton	Wendy
Herb Muller	Young Mr. Mertle
Shari Rhodes	Actor
Garret Pearson	Police Chief
Ed Mathews	Thief
Keith Campbell	Thief
Wil Horneff	Phillips
Karl Simmons	Schoolyard Pitcher
Maury Wills	Coach
Bob Apisa	Home Plate Umpire
Robbie T. Robinson	3rd Base Umpire
Chuck Fick	Giants Catcher
Daniel Zacapa	Actor
Tim Page	Giants Pitcher
Dennis Williams	Giants 3rd Baseman
Cynthia Windham	Mother at Pool
Shane Lavar Smith	Toddler
Brian Simpson	Beast Puppeteer
Mark N. Weatherbe	Beast Puppeteer
Cleve Hall	Beast Puppeteer
Arliss Howard	Adult Scotty Smalls (uncredited)
David Newman	Composer

Technical Credits

David Mickey Evans

Mark Burg	Executive Producer
Dale De La Torre	Producer
William S. Gilmore	Producer
Stuart McAra	Special Effects
John Moio	Stunts
Mark Nelmes	Special Effects
Shari Rhodes	Casting
Cathleen Summers	Executive Producer
Cliff Wenger	Special Effects
Janet Yale	Special Effects
Richard Yuricich	Special Effects
Chris Zarpas	Executive Producer
David Mickey Evans	Director,Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

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.

All Movie Guide - Anthony Reed