pfisher-32275
Although this may not have won awards & may not appeal to the masses, it really is a wonderfully sentimental & nostalgic piece of cinema. The locations were well chosen & picturesque & the various musical scores from David Foster (of St Elmo's fame) during the emotional & poignant moments, enhance the movie no end. Foster & Harmon turn in engaging performances as the main leads & there's great comic support from Harold Ramis & Jonathan Silverman. I just can't help feeling that McNamara was miss cast as Harmon's younger self. I know we grow, change & mature but I just see no correlation between him & Harman in terms of looks, personality or persona. He looks very slightly awkward in some scenes, like he's winging it, maybe this is compounded by the fact he is opposite the great Jodie Foster. Overall a movie you can lose yourself in & perfect for a quiet relaxing evening or a lazy Sunday afternoon. If you liked Harmon in this & wanted something else from the same era you can try "Prince of Bel Air". It's good fun & lighter fare compared to this but still deals with some important issues & has a similar feel good factor (see if you can spot Swayze's brother).
Luis Guillermo Cardona
On behalf of youth, there have been some of the worst scarecrows of film history, but also, from time to time (¿why is always good once in a while?) Is a story that blanket the soul and brings us back the romance, sometimes we lost forever. And it's so beautiful dream with open eyes! And so great was that first love that made us believe that in this world was perfect! There is, perhaps, other moments that are remembered with more gratitude, as experienced with tenderness and passion in our adolescence. "Stealing Home" is one of those movies. The story is about a boy (Billy Wyatt) baseball player, in crisis after the death of his father who one day finds out that Kathy Chandler, his sweet first love, killed himself and hopes that he is the man take charge of her ashes. Then the memories begin. With each haunting space, the past returns unstoppable, and Billy is remembered as a ten year old boy fascinated by the beautiful Kathy sixteen. Travel by car, the first installment, the horse diver, swimming pool... The enormity of the simple, tenderness and charm of every gesture, every touch, every word. The forever stamp each encounter... and death that is interwoven to tell her it was all an illusion and that nothing is to touch it again. Kathy was a young girl who wanted to own your life every minute, every second. He wanted to chart a path of freedom in a world where constraints arising everywhere. But you can say I tried to exhaust his strength... to vanish in a haze of memory. Jodie Foster gives an adult character,charming and credible. In full bloom of adolescence, showing mature, sensitive, beautiful, and lets us feel that great actress who has always been throughout his career.Beautiful songs and a nice atmosphere reminiscent of famous titles as "Summer of 42" or "The Man in the Moon", make this an enjoyable film worth seeing and remembering.
moonspinner55
Burnt-out baseball player Mark Harmon, upon hearing of the suicide of a childhood friend, hearkens back to his younger days, eventually returning home to put peace to the past. As Harmon's boyhood muse, Jodie Foster is a bit like Auntie Mame at 20, raffish and exciting--but what happens to her character is a writer's pretense and it just doesn't wash (it fails to jibe with the blossomed young woman we've been watching). This light drama, a labor of love for writer-directors Steven Kampmann and William Porter, is awfully slight, relying heavily on comedic asides and nostalgia to round it off (even erring on that score, as the nostalgia seems distinctly falsified). However, Foster has a handful of scenes that touch on something deeper than woozy sentiment and reminiscences; she finds the heart of this piece and manages to give the picture some depth. ** from ****
jotix100
"Stealing Home" is a film that will resonate with a section of the movie viewing public because it presents a story which will be easily loved. Directors Steven Kampmann and William Porter, who also wrote the screen play, show they can evoke the era in which the picture takes place. Both of these gentlemen know a thing or two about how to project the right atmosphere through the use of the popular music of the time.Although no date is given, it's clearly the early sixties when Billy and his best friend, Alan, come of age. It's the summer and they are spending it, like always, at the beach where their wealthy families seem to keep a home. There are three periods in which the film is set, once when Billy is about ten, then as a teen ager, and then as a young man in his twenties.Throughout the film, we watch the love between Katie, the friend of the Brown family, as she babysits the young Billy. Then, as a teen ager, Billy's love for Katie is made clear and it's returned by her. Katie is six years older, it's a love that consumes them during one summer after Billy's father is killed in a car accident. The last part of the film shows us Billy returning home as he has been called because Katie has named him to be the disposer of her ashes after she commits suicide. It's a beautiful love story, and it's easy to see why viewers love it. The best thing in the film are William McNamara, as the teen age Billy and Jodie Foster, who is Katie, the eternally beautiful Katie, who for some reason of movie magic, never seems to age. The supporting cast is excellent, John Shea, Blair Brown, Harold Ramis, among them.This is a good summer movie to watch. It's sunniness will warm any viewer looking for a good romantic way to spend some time.
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