When it comes to funny business, Tollin's got game, and he makes the most of some talented supporting players on his bench.
Comment
04/16/08
Summer Catch (2001)
7 %
Reviews Counted: 82 Fresh: 6 Rotten:76 Average Rating: 3/10
Consensus:
Cliched and predictable, Summer Catch is a reminder of better films.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Synopsis: This summer couldn't be more crucial for Ryan Dunne (FREDDIE PRINZE JR.), a blue-collar kid with major league aspirations. Every year the hottest college ball players in the country descend upon Cape Cod to pursue their big-league dreams during the day and blow off steam in town at night. The... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard, Marc Blucas, Wilmer Valderrama
Director: Michael Tollin
Screenwriter: Kevin Falls, John Gatins
Producer: Michael Tollin, Herb Gains, Sam Weisman
Composer: George Fenton
Screenwriter: Kevin Falls, John Gatins
Producer: Michael Tollin, Herb Gains, Sam Weisman
Composer: George Fenton
Reviews
Top Critic
A baseball movie with no baseball, no movie, and absolutely no love involved.
01/11/06
If this is what the boys of summer are offering, I say bring on football season -- now!
03/26/04
Not that this is a particularly dispicable film, it just doesn't try to do anything new and delivers mostly wooden performances.
02/25/04
Perhaps Freddie is simply a pawn in some sinister plan to destroy his career...
08/17/03
Director Mike Tollin and writers Kevin Falls and John Gatins' already humdrum material is made more vapid by the leads.
12/08/02
Freddie Prinze Jr. has become the opposite of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. His face on a movie poster guarantees a bad time.
06/20/02
Whitman is right: Baseball is our poetic register, and so I've become whimsical for the days of tee-ball and George Brett and when baseball movies were beautiful.
06/10/02
Primarily to blame for this mess is the leaden script by Kevin Falls and John Gatins, which absorbs a bushel of baseball clichs while demonstrating a singular inability to present love, sex or even bawdy jokes.
04/12/02
Check it out if you're drunk and looking for a shoulder-shrugging time-waster...
02/06/02
Notable only for the spectacle of watching both Prinze and Biel getting out-performed in the same motion picture by Matthew Lillard.
01/07/02
In the interest of maintaining the status quo running time of 80-some minutes, we are subjected to a painfully ugly series of subplots and side characters.
12/12/01
Inoffensive, but utterly generic, the baseball-related romantic comedy does little more than kill time.
09/05/01
It's almost any botched play analogy you can think of, though never exciting enough to be compared to a strike-out or even to a wild pitch.
09/04/01
Will Ryan get a big league contract or spend the rest of his life mowing lawns? Will Ryan get the girl? Is baseball still America’s pastime?
08/30/01
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