A young man wins and loses the first serious love of his life. Al Connelly falls in love with the girl of his dreams. After the summer she breaks up with him. As he tries to recover Al goes to desperate measures.
Director:
Kris Isacsson
Stars:
Freddie Prinze Jr.,
Julia Stiles,
Selma Blair
Ryan Dunne, a nice high-school kid, who works hard mowing lawns for dad Sean's firm, is caught between loyalty to Sir, who cynically believes neither of his sons will even climb the social ladder, and big brother Mike, who scolds Ryan's lack of ambition to go all the way to be recruiter for for a baseball college scholarship, which Mike had to abandon due to a wound. To complicate matters, he falls in love with a snob client's daughter.Written by
KGF Vissers
John Schiffner is the real life coach and manager of the Chatham A's. See more »
Goofs
During the season opener the announcer mentions that hitter Billy Brubaker has been struggling with the wood bats this season. Obviously he would not know this nor is it possible since this is the season opener. See more »
Quotes
Ryan:
[to Pete after he tells Ryan that he's a great pitcher]
Yeah? Well... What you think don't mean shit!...
[Pete and Auggie are confused]
Ryan:
...What?... Look all that matters is making it... Getting signed and cashing a check! And right now, I'm lucky if some scout from Po-dunk lets me pitch batting practice for the next couple of seasons!
Auggie:
No you're wrong!
Ryan:
Bullshit! That's all that matters!
Auggie:
No bullshit! What matters is there's some of us who would say you've already made it! Some of us - Some of us ...
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Alternate Versions
DVD release features 12 minutes of deleted scenes. See more »
Honestly, this movie would be all right in my book if they would have taken out all the jokes making fun of overweight women and the gratuitous sexual content. It would have been a nice family movie. But no, they had to go and make it crude, and now I've lost all respect for Brittany Murphy! When will they make a movie that's suitable to watch with my little sister? Probably never.
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Honestly, this movie would be all right in my book if they would have taken out all the jokes making fun of overweight women and the gratuitous sexual content. It would have been a nice family movie. But no, they had to go and make it crude, and now I've lost all respect for Brittany Murphy! When will they make a movie that's suitable to watch with my little sister? Probably never.