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Blue Skies Again

1983, Movie, PG, 96 mins

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A baseball movie in the tradition of IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING and ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD--which is to say you'd better be willing to suspend your disbelief from the opening pitch--BLUE SKIES AGAIN is a light comedy about a female second baseman's assault on the major league's gender barrier. Its implausibility, however, stems less from the attempt by softball player Paula Frakin (Robyn Barto) to make a big league roster than from the ludicrously contrived spring training camp and baseball environment the film presents. Harry Hamlin plays the team's bachelor owner, and his attraction to Frakin's personal manager (Mimi Rogers of SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME fame) causes him to think twice about his male chauvinism. All in all, this is a pleasant film, and it should bring smiles to the faces of young women who are involved in real-life struggles to overcome sexual discrimination in sport. leave a comment
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