A League of Their Own

1992 | Comedy | 128 minutes | English

Info

When America faced a shortage of professional baseball players during World War II, Walter Harvey, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, decided to start the All-American Professional Baseball League. Harvey assigned Ernie Capadino with the job of recruiting able women throughout the country. After spotting Dottie Hinson on a farm in rural Oregon, he offers her a job. But Dottie only accepts if her equally talented sister Kit is also hired. In Chicago, Dottie and Kit meet their dazzling teammates: Mae “All the Way” Morabito, Doris Murphy, Betty “Spaghetti” Horn, and several others. Together they make up the team, the Rockford Peaches. They are managed by Jimmy Dugan. Even though he’s a boozed-up has-been, Dugan manages to create a cohesive team that wins the women’s World Series. Years later the team is reunited at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame where there is a place of honor for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Cast

Geena Davis (Dottie Hinson) / Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) / Madonna (Mae Mordabito) / Lori Petty (Kit Keller)) / Rosie O’Donnell (Doris Murphy) / Jon Lovitz (Ernie Capadino) / Garry Marshall (Walter Harvey)

Why Stream This Film?

With three stars, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Rosie O’Donnell playing against type, how can this film miss? It’s also a heartwarming film about the early pioneers of the feminist movement.

Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 78%
Metacritic Score: 67

Accolades

Golden Globes: Nominated, Best Performance by an Actress (Geena Davis); Best Original Song (“This Used to be My Playground”)
American Comedy Awards: Winner, Funniest Supporting Actor (Tom Hanks)
The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”