Summer Catch

This lightweight, poor boy-rich girl romance seems aimed squarely at adolescent girls, except that baseball plays a pivotal role in the story and, as a group, adolescent girls are notoriously uninterested in baseball. In addition, the series of earnest bromides the film delivers — believe in yourself, stick by your friends, allow yourself to succeed — is enough to turn off any teenager worth his or her salt. Chatham, Mass., native Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.) is a landscaper's son who dreams of a career in baseball as he mows the very field on which he one day hopes to play. How's that for a symbol? Every summer, the cream of college baseball players are...