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Summer Catch (2001)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:6
Rotten:77
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Cliched and predictable, Summer Catch is a reminder of better films.
Theatrical Release:Aug 24, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $19,037,255
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... [More]
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard, Marc Blucas
Director: Michael Tollin
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Reviews for Summer Catch
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 2/5 |
The film steps up a notch when the action is on the field. However, many directors before him have portrayed the beloved sport better. Full Review |
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When it comes to funny business, Tollin's got game, and he makes the most of some talented supporting players on his bench. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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[An] awful light drama. Full Review |
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1/5 |
A baseball movie with no baseball, no movie, and absolutely no love involved. Full Review |
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1/4 |
If this is what the boys of summer are offering, I say bring on football season -- now! Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Not that this is a particularly dispicable film, it just doesn't try to do anything new and delivers mostly wooden performances. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Perhaps Freddie is simply a pawn in some sinister plan to destroy his career... Full Review |
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2/4 |
Call this one foul. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Director Mike Tollin and writers Kevin Falls and John Gatins' already humdrum material is made more vapid by the leads. Full Review |
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Yawn. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Freddie Prinze Jr. has become the opposite of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. His face on a movie poster guarantees a bad time. Full Review |
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Don't catch it. Drop it. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/10 |
Check it out if you're drunk and looking for a shoulder-shrugging time-waster... Full Review |
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0/4 |
Notable only for the spectacle of watching both Prinze and Biel getting out-performed in the same motion picture by Matthew Lillard. Full Review |
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2/10 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Inoffensive, but utterly generic, the baseball-related romantic comedy does little more than kill time. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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