
A Detroit pitcher Billy Chapel, reflects on his life in major league baseball, after he finds out his girlfriend moves to London for a job. Thus forcing the ball player to analyze his life and how his career as a player, and his life without her will change, thus altering his priorities between his career winding to a close, choosing what his path will be, the love of baseball or the love of his life?... (Full plot summary below)
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A Detroit pitcher Billy Chapel, reflects on his life in major league baseball, after he finds out his girlfriend moves to London for a job. Thus forcing the ball player to analyze his life and how his career as a player, and his life without her will change, thus altering his priorities between his career winding to a close, choosing what his path will be, the love of baseball or the love of his life?
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| Boston GlobeJay CarrAfter revitalizing baseball movies with "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham," he's now three for three with the funny, quirky, rueful, and richly textured For Love of the Game. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordThe copious footage devoted to Billy and Jane's encounters might have been easier to sit through is there was any magic between Costner and Preston, but they're acting in two different films. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldGoes down like a cool glass of lemonade on a hot day. |
| San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamIt is a romance about a man and a woman, and it is a romance about baseball itself. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesLovingly filmed by John Bailey with the twinkling glow of New York at night and with the warm colors of a baseball game, the movie is invitingly sentimental and nostalgic. |
| NUVO NewsweeklyEdward Johnson-OttThough uneven and occasionally sluggish, For Love of the Game is a surprisingly satisfying hybrid of an old-fashioned sports film and a contemporary date movie. |
| CinemaSense.ComCornell & PetricelliThe baseball story was self-contained and involving for those who do not understand or appreciate the game, and Costner's range of emotions was genuinely gripping. |
| culturevulture.netDakThe plot points are so predictable, and the love interest so impossibly off the mark that these messages may as well be scribbled on home plate and then covered with a tarp. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin*For Love of the Game continually pushes its luck past the breaking point. |
| Time OutWendy Ide[The] game stretches over most of the film, but any anticipated suspense is undercut by the sepia-tinted inserts charting the couple's bumpy uninvolving five-year romance from first meeting to acrimonious split(s) |