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Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Dolby, French, Subtitled, Dolby Digital (5.1)
She's beautiful, smart, goal-oriented, and she just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. So she signs the wildest gang of screwballs that ever spit tobacco. They're handsome, but they're hopeless! Her catcher (Tom Berenger) is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her ace pitcher (Charlie Sheen) is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. And her third baseman (L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen) is more concerned about fielding endorsements than grounders. Throw in a busload of other misfits and you've got yourself a hilarious line-up that's destined for disaster. Or is it?
"...the quarter pounder with cheese of baseball movies." Brad laidman, Filmthreat.com
"...the mix of humor and pennant races is hard to beat." Doug Pratt's Laser Disc Review
"...all the things "Bull Durham"was--hip, irreverent, sexy." Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Editor's Note
When the widow of the owner of the Cleveland Indians realizes that she is stuck with a small stadium in a cold climate, she decides that a move to a Southern, warmer climate is called for. Unfortunately the only way she can unload her stadium is due to low attendance, so she needs to plan for a losing and lackluster season. The team of misfits and losers that she has hired, though, decide that if they really pull through, they may not wind up in last place and not be the losers that the owner thinks that they are. This offbeat baseball comedy, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen and Rene Russo, was a surprise 1989 hit.
Plot Summary
Cleveland Indians owner Rachel Phelps puts together the worst team she can possibly find, in the hopes that audiences will stay away and she can break her lease and move the team to Miami. Of course, the team of losers catches on to the scam and, with new-found motivation, conspire to foil her plans.
| Features | Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus | | French Mono | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | English Subtitles |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Major League - DVD By: Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/5/2007 3:11 PM | |
A baseball nerd like me loves Major League because the action scenes look realistic. No one throws the ball like a three-year-old or swings the bat like a drunken teen making a pass at his prom date, though Tom Berenger needs work on his bunting. The storyline involves real teams playing in real stadiums. For those who wish ESPN never existed, Major League is easy to love because it's very funny and its characters are likeable beyond their athletic ability. For a movie that focuses on a sport that has long ceased to be the national pastime, anyone can love Major League....read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 12/29/2004 |
| Running Time: 106 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1989 | | Catalog ID: 322704 | | UPC: 00097363227045 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[MAJOR LEAGUE] has the wit to make fun of it[self] now and then....Wonderfully unpretentious..." 04/07/1989 p.C19USA Today
"...The cast is attractive..." 04/07/1989 p.6D Los Angeles Times
"...An amiable and amusing hot weather diversion....Ward directs his actors as adroitly as he has written from them....MAJOR LEAGUE has its own ingratiating charm..." 04/07/1989 p.C10 |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Cinematography |  4.5 | | Plot | 4.5 | | Acting | 4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4.5 |
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4 of 5 Good Movies Sunday, March 04, 2007
A Viewer from Charleston, IL
Good enjoyable movies, though not quite as funny as the first. Still, good entertainment for the price. Was this review helpful?  
4 of 5 Classic Great Movie Sunday, March 04, 2007
A Viewer from Charleston, IL
I always loved this one. The only reason I give it an overall 4 is because of the swearing. I wish there wasn't so much. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL-TIME Monday, September 23, 2002
LJ from NY
One of the best baseball movies I've ever seen, Really shows actual teamwork and baseball talk. Great movie for all ages. Guaranteed to make anyone laugh. You can be sure I'll buy it when it comes out Was this review helpful?
1 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Major League on DVD at last Sunday, August 04, 2002
Toby Schmidt from Dayton, NJ
Major League (the first in the series and the only one worth owning) is finally on DVD! The movie that made Wesley Snipes a star, also features Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, and Corbin Bernson. They are members of the Cleveland Indians, a hapless major league baseball team that hasn't been to the World Series in 50 years. When the new owner wants to move the team to Florida, the only way she can break the stadium lease is to set a record for low attendance. Her solution, field a team of has-beens and rookies , a team so bad no one will pay to see them.
The result is a wonderful film about teamwork and baseball. Was this review helpful?
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