For Love of the Game (1999)
Directed by Sam Raimi
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
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What critics compared For Love of the Game to
When Sam Raimi jumped from low-budget action-horror-comedy (" Darkman ," " Army of Darkness ") toward first quiet respectability (with the great, underrated " A Simple Plan " and " For Love of the Game ") and then megabuck profitability (with the " Spider-Man " films), it was great to see a real American talent succeed.
This is how the very quirky, handmade style of films such as The Evil Dead, DARKMAN and even The Quick and the Dead suddenly gave way to the incredibly impersonal style of both A Simple Plan and the maudlin sports opera For Love of the Game.
Sure, a few stinkers litter his backyard (“For Love of the Game,” anyone?), but when Raimi directs, it’s mostly good.
In the '90s he branched out into films with stars, largely away from horror: The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game, The Gift.
Yes, after The Evil Dead, he quickly took on studio work, and even before the Spider-Man trilogy made billions worldwide, his name was already attached to a host of incongruous titles—The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game.
Crafted similarly to films like "For Love of the Game," where flashbacks occur throughout the course of a game, "Slumdog" uses "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" as the vehicle to relay the story of Jamal and the trials of his early life.