Angels In The Outfield 1994 1080p Torrent
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Angels in the Outfield is a 1994 American family sports fantasy comedy-drama film directed by William Dear. It is a remake of the 1951 film of the same name. It stars Danny Glover, Tony Danza and Christopher Lloyd, and features several future stars, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt (in the lead), Adrien Brody, Matthew McConaughey, and Neal McDonough. It was followed by two made for TV sequels, Angels in the Endzone and Angels in the Infield. It was released less than a month before the 1994 MLB Baseball Strike, which forced the league to cancel the playoffs and the World Series.
Young foster child Roger Bomman and his friend, J.P., love to sneak into baseball games of the struggling California Angels. Still in limited contact with his widowed father, Roger asks when they will be a family again. His father replies sarcastically, "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant". Taking his father's words literally, he prays for God to help the Angels win. In a game against the Toronto Blue Jays which Roger and J.P. attend, he sees a group of angels led by Al helping the team. Although he can see them quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences. Roger's unique ability to see which players are receiving help from angels leads their skeptical manager George Knox to keep him around as a good luck charm and consultant. Due to the much-needed help, the Angels start to win games and make a surprising second-half surge to the top of their division.
Roger's father permanently gives up custody of him, believing it is in Roger's best interest. As Roger laments his loss, an equally distraught J.P. accidentally reveals to antagonistic sportscaster Ranch Wilder that Roger has the ability to see angels, and that George has been winning through the advice Roger gave him. Hoping to permanently end George's career in baseball since their days as players, Wilder informs the press of this, and their owner Hank Murphy threatens to relieve George of his management responsibilities. Roger comes clean to his caretaker Maggie Nelson about his special ability, and at a press conference, they and the entire team defend George in front of the press. Moved by their faith, Murphy allows him to remain as the Angels' manager.
During the final game of the season against the rival Chicago White Sox, none of the angels show up to help the team. Later on, Al appears to Roger and explains that championships have to be won on their own. He also says that he is there to check on pitcher Mel Clark, who only has months to live due to his years of smoking and will become an angel himself. Mel struggles in the ninth inning but perseveres after encouragement from George, his team, and the fans in attendance. The Angels ultimately win the game on their own and clinch the division title and the pennant, while Murphy fires Wilder for insulting the team on the air. George adopts Roger and J.P., as he wants to try to be a father. J.P. sees Al and says, "I knew it could happen". Al flies off and says, "We're always watching".
The film opens on a sad note, with little Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a foster child, in court hoping to be reunited with his father. But the father is a motorcycle loner with no room for a kid on the bike, and so Roger is sent back to stay with the warm woman (Brenda Fricker) who runs his foster home. When will he ever be part of a "real family" again, he asks his dad, who laughs and says, "Not until the Angels win the pennant." He is referring to the California Angels, mired in last place at this point in the film (and at the bottom of the West Division in reality), but Roger consults with little J.P. (Milton Davis, Jr.), who also lives in the foster home, and then prays for heavenly intervention in the team's fate. And before long, amazingly, the Angels start to win. There are plays so sensational that they seem to defy the laws of physics. And only Roger, who can see angels in the outfield and elsewhere, knows why these miracles are happening.
The team is being managed by a bitter, angry veteran named George Knox (Danny Glover). Among its members is the once-great pitcher Mel Clark (Tony Danza), who has been benched for much of the season. When George's team starts to win, he is astonished, until he learns from his little fan Roger that angels are helping the team. He doubts it, but cannot argue with results. And when Mel starts pitching again, he gets help from the angels, too, and regains his old form.
The movie then reduces itself to a formula, alternating between baseball action (angels appear, work miracles, and announcer goes into ecstasy) and human redemption (the manager becomes more of a human being). The baseball action isn't very interesting because the angels (led by Christopher Lloyd) manipulate the outcomes. And the human interest stuff is canned and unconvincing. The only character who really rings true is the comeback pitcher played by Danza.
The 1994 Disney "Angels In The Outfield" -- even though I knew it was a cynical marketing ploy (we'll get to this later), and even though I found the movie an incoherent mess -- struck me as unusual for a sports film. There were rather oddball elements which didn't fit the underdog/fallen hero templates. So I loathed the reason why it was made, but I respected some of the original script ideas that didn't quite come together.
There's a 1951 "Angels In The Outfield," and everything -- every last thing -- that's tolerable in the 1994 version is complete theft. You could say in one sense the 1994 version was ahead of its time; like the modern wave of remakes and sequels, it strip-mined the original for ideas, added almost nothing new, and couldn't even repeat what made the source enjoyable.
Kids at a Catholic orphanage go see a game, and one swears she sees angels behind every Pirates player. Her kindly-but-firm Mother Superior attributes this to heat stroke and gets the kid into shade. Janet Leigh hears this, publishes the story, and all fuckbasket Heck breaks loose.
Sure enough, actual angels (horrific, cheap-effect, giant flying happy gargoyles) swoop in and make impossible play after play happen which, if it happened more than once, would cause armies of physicists to swarm Anaheim, studying this bizarre space-time-gravitational anomaly. Only Orphan Kid can see and talk to the angels. (In the original, only Manager McJerk can hear them, only Orphan Kid see them, so each sympathizes with the other because both are considered crazy.)
Recall from our 1951 Party above that the manager actually hears angels. His sanity is questioned. In this version, the manager is questioned for believing a kid who says angels are on the team's side. Basically, for thinking the kid's a good luck charm.
Who cares? Managers all the time say a recently dead player was "looking out for us" or believe that having a kid with cancer in the dugout gives the team mystical mojo. Nobody cared about that in 1951, nobody in 1994, nobody today. A manager who says he gets game advice from a voice in his head, that would be considered a little strange. (Less strange now. Much more strange in 1951.)
All the actors in 1994 "Angels" give it a good try. Glover and Lloyd reprise some charming tics from their characters in other movies (Lloyd's a celestial mad professor, Glover's a baseball "I'm getting too old for this.") Brenda Fricker is tough & kindly as the orphan's mom, just like her tough/kindly mom in "My Left Foot." McConaughey already seems spaced out in his own galaxy. Gordon-Levitt's pretty unpretentious for a child actor.
Then again, in the 1951 version, one of the best parts is a pitcher past his prime. And, another gripe -- in that movie, the pitcher has a history with Manager McJerk. In 1994, it's just "oh, old people. So sad."
The only creative thing in it -- Orphan Kid's deadbeat dad -- is good, as are early establishing shots of broke Anaheim neighborhoods. Compare this protagonist, who merely wants a stable family life, to the heroes of every Disney Channel product today. If I knew a kid who adored 1994's "Angels," I'd totally dig that kid, if not the filmmakers.
Bottom line, the 1951 "Angels" took old formulas about underdogs and fallen egotists, added a strange supernatural twist, and made it unpredictable. The 1994 remake was pure marketing ploy. That Disney's 1994 version failed majestically is almost enough to make me think, maybe we do have angels watching out for us.
Angels in the Outfield (known simply as Angels in some countries) is a 1994 Disney film remake of the 1951 film of the same name. The film stars Danny Glover, Tony Danza and Christopher Lloyd. The film also featured appearances from future stars, including Adrien Brody, Matthew McConaughey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Neal McDonough.
Baseball fans, however, will always hold a soft spot in their heart for Negron, who played a hapless, slapstick napkin personified in the 1994 film "Angels in the Outfield" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
I will never forget the sound of surprised excitement my oldest son who is a solid little ball player had, when he first saw the angels swoop down in this since he had no idea that was coming. Angels in the Outfield might give you a toothache from how sweet it is, but it sure does make for a great feel-good family baseball flick.
Disney remake of the 1951 MGM film about a baseball team so luckless they need angels to help them win. In my youth, I watched this primarily for Christopher Lloyd... who is barely in it, so it rubbed me the wrong way.
3. To a certain generation, this film was a mini bible. Quite literally, with all the prayers and angels that exist in it. I've seen it 30-40 times and it was my introduction to Danny Glover, who is simply a national treasure. I would only later discover Lethal Weapon and wish he would just flap his arms like an angel when Murtaugh and Riggs were in a jam.
Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is well known for his leading role as Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series, The Color Purple (1985), To Sleep with Anger (1990), and Angels in the Outfield (1994). He also has prominent supporting roles in Silverado (1985), Witness (1985), Predator 2 (1990), Saw (2004), Shooter (2007), 2012 (2009), Death at a Funeral (2010), Beyond the Lights (2014), and Dirty Grandpa (2016). He has appeared in many other movies, television shows, and theatrical productions, and is an active supporter of various humanitarian and political causes.
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