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The Final Season

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The Final Season (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 11  Rotten:36 Average Rating: 4.5/10
 
Consensus: The Final Season recycles clichés we've seen in countless other sports movies, making for an unoriginal and uninspiring addition to the genre.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Synopsis: Directed by David Mickey Evans (THE SANDLOT) THE FINAL SEASON is based on the true the story of a small town baseball team facing insurmountable odds. Tradition in Norway, Iowa (pop. 586) can be summed up in one word, Baseball. From father to son, generation to generation, this high school... Directed by David Mickey Evans (THE SANDLOT) THE FINAL SEASON is based on the true the story of a small town baseball team facing insurmountable odds. Tradition in Norway, Iowa (pop. 586) can be summed up in one word, Baseball. From father to son, generation to generation, this high school David exists to defeat Goliaths ten times its size. As Coach Jim Van Scoyoc (Powers Boothe) leads the team to its 19th State title, it seems following it with a 20th is a forgone conclusion. The unexpected strikes when bureaucracy intercedes merging the town with another. Petty jealousies and political designs conspire to rob Norway of its heritage and a 20th Championship. Making matters worse, legendary coach Van Scoyoc is fired and replaced with a one-season assistant coach, Kent Stock (Sean Astin) – a move that seems to guarantee the team’s failure. THE FINAL SEASON is a film about the sudden nature of change, the identity of a small town and the strength that brings out the best when we need it most. Based on a screenplay by Art D’Alessandro and James Grayford the film also stars Rachel Leigh Cook, Michael Angarano and Tom Arnold. --© Yari Film Group [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael Angarano, Tom Arnold

Director: David Mickey Evans
Screenwriter: Art D'Alessandro, James Grayford
Producer: Michael Wasserman, Steven Schott, Tony Wilson, D. Parker Widemire, Herschel Weingrod
Composer: Nathan Wang

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 4, 2009

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
  • Closed Captioned

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary
  • Making-Of

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04/03/08
Boxoffice Magazine
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1/4

Most of the townspeople are archetypes. In fact, you get the feeling the town is populated by character actors and not real people.

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10/20/07
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
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B

An exciting family picture, worthy of viewing, if only for the warm-fuzzy feeling.

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10/20/07
Jennifer Preyss
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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2/5

...strictly pro forma.

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10/19/07
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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2/4

It never hits a home run. But "Final Season," an adequate movie about an above-average baseball team, isn't a loser, either.

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10/17/07
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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Other than what happens on the playing field in 'The Final Season,' there's not much else going on.

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10/16/07
Frank Wilkins
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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2/4

Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob.

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10/15/07
Frank Ochieng
World Voice News
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1/4

The tagline should be changed from How Do You Want To Be Remembered, to How Do You Want To Be Forgotten? You will find yourself forgetting too!

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10/14/07
Vince Koehler
Entertainment Spectrum
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Stereotypes are meant to exalt small-town values, but The Final Season is proof that it's hard to paint masterpiece in broad strokes.

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10/12/07
Scott Tobias
Onion AV Club
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2.5/4

It moves along at a brisk pace, the ball games are skillfully done and its point about the need for local decisions -- like the closing a school -- to be made at the local level is a point well made.

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10/12/07
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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1.5/4

Ever notice that sports movies that mean to inspire us with the message that winning isn't everything almost always end up with a victory?

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10/12/07
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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1.5/4

Perhaps if Disney had gotten their hands on it, The Final Season would have gotten the spitball polish it needs.

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10/12/07
Ted Fry
Seattle Times
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2/4

Why is it enjoyable to watch sporting events depicted when we know how the games will end -- how they have to end? Where does the tension come from? Why do we care when we know already?

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10/12/07
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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1/4

So relentlessly earnest and maudlin it makes Hoosiers look like a Martin Scorsese film, The Final Season is the latest and worst sports-themed underdog story to get the big screen treatment.

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10/12/07
Timothy Knight
Reel.com
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2.5/4

For once, here's a sports movie that doesn't feature players who are expected to lose.

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10/12/07
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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2/4

Belying the claim there's no longer any truth in advertising, The Final Season is exactly the formulaic, by-the-numbers movie it appears to be. These Tigers deserved better.

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10/12/07
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald
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Remarkably, the movie rights itself once the actual season begins, focusing on game strategy more than the usual heart-stopping pep talks.

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10/12/07
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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2/4

The US corn surplus is in no way eased by The Final Season, an Iowa high school baseball saga that goes heavy on the inspiration, sports-movie cliches, and high-fructose syrup.

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10/12/07
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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Kind of Hoosiers: Part 2. But the storytelling is so backassward that it’s impossible to care about any of the characters or really engage in the movie whatsoever.

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10/12/07
Toddy Burton
Austin Chronicle
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3.5/5

How could you not give 3 cheers for the farm boys who make good... and how could we not give this movie a recommend, even if it does stray too much off the diamond.

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10/12/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
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