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Up for Grabs (2005)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:15
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: You don't have to be a baseball fan to be entertained by the absurdities, obsessions, and greed on display in this documentary.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Apr 15, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Baseball has long been called our national pastime. Here in 2005, we might add trendier pursuits like get-rich-quick schemes, suing your neighbor, and grasping for 15 minutes of fame. Mike... [More]
Director: Michael Wranovics
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Reviews for Up for Grabs
1 - 18 (sorted by date)
Top Critic... a buoyant documentary ...
05/01/07
Top CriticIt's a terrific story -- part mystery, part farce, part legal nail-biter -- with a last-minute reversal so bitterly ironic it could have been scripted by Billy Wilder.
04/23/07
Top CriticThis smartly assembled comedy articulates irritation with and bewilderment at its subject: the legal battle for possession of a baseball.
08/12/05
Top CriticIt would be hard to find a more succinct and entertaining indictment of American popular culture and obsessive sports fans.
06/17/05
Top CriticIt definitely has entertainment value, providing of course that you're able to find amusement in greed, duplicity and expensive litigation.
06/17/05
Top CriticUp for Grabs may be the perfect sports doc for this me-first day and age.
06/09/05
Top CriticA twisty little documentary about the aftermath of Bonds' fat swing.
05/19/05
Top CriticA winning combination of humor and crafty filmmaking that cleverly masks the social commentary going on beneath.
05/12/05
Top CriticThe film spends a little too much time on the fates of previous home run balls in general.
05/06/05
Top CriticMichael Wranovics' documentary replays this sorry chapter in all-American greed in glorious detail.
05/06/05
Top CriticMichael Wranovics' highly enertaining documentary Up for Grabs is a wry, Rashomon-like tale.
05/06/05
Top CriticThe longer the case drags on, the more you may begin to wish that, somehow, both sides lose.
05/06/05
Top CriticDirector Michael Wranovics does a deft job of keeping things moving, eccentric and nutty: After all, where else, and under what other circumstances, could someone say 'he caught it' about Popov in a singles bar and have women flock around him?
05/05/05
Top CriticThe tone is best captured by one Bay Area sportswriter's wry comment that catching a valuable home run ball is 'sort of like winning the lottery except you feel like you earned it.'
05/03/05
Top CriticCaptures the excitement of the game as well as the intimate drama -- and comedy -- of the human conflict.
04/21/05
Top CriticWith complex lead characters, an endless supporting cast and focus on an inanimate object that draws out the weakness in men, the movie has more in common with the Lord of the Rings trilogies than anything from the camera of Ken Burns.
04/15/05
Top CriticA sly curve ball of a documentary best described as a sports-themed Rashomon with an O. Henry twist.
04/13/05
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