Stealing Home
by Steven Kampmann, William Porter
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Actor: Blair Brown, Harold Ramis, Jonathan Silverman, Mark Harmon, William McNamaraDirector: Steven Kampmann, William Porter
Brand: Team Marketing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-23
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Stealing Home
Movie Review: Waxing nostalgic
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this film in the movie theatre and liked it a lot. The other day, I saw it on the shelf @ the pharmacy and was feeling nostalgic, so I picked it up. This is a PERFECT movie for anyone who happens to be in a nostalgic mood!
The plot centers around a burned-out baseball player (Mark Harmon) who is tasked with finding the final place of burial for an old friend's ashes. The old friend is Katie (Jodie Foster), who was his babysitter as he grew up during the 1960s. Katie committed suicide, which is a bit of a gender role-reversal; most movies which deal with suicides are stories of men ending their own lives. After all, men are FAR more prone to suicide than women are.
The story has plenty of flashbacks to his boyhood and teenage years - back when he spent time with Katie. She had a tremendous influence on his life, and Nietzsche would label her as a sort of un-restrained Dionysian character.
For myself, I could very much relate to the flashbacks where things seemed SO close to perfection, and yet any sort of sustained happiness was just out-of-reach. That is a motif that is more than relevant to my life.
The soundtrack was written by David Foster (St. Elmo's Fire) and is a classic 80s soundtrack. In fact, I have owned the soundtrack for several yrs on CD as I liked it so much.
The time of the movie is rather interesting in that Jodie Foster was making the transition from her childhood actress years of doing Disney-type movies to becoming an accomplished and serious actress. There are many actresses in Hollywood who are more glamorous than Foster, but few can match her in acting skills. I would very much like to meet her one day for a cup of coffee as it's obvious that she has a lot of depth to her personality.
This is a well-done movie, and the usually stoic Mark Harmon turns in perhaps his best performance. Harold Ramis (The Ghost Busters - The Complete Series (Filmation, Live Action) (1975)), Blair Brown (Altered States) also star, and a young Helen Hunt makes a cameo appearance.
Many people will call this movie sappy, and that's not altogether unfair. However, sometimes sappy movies can be good movies, and this is a good movie (in my mind). If you loathe films which ooze nostalgia, this one is likely not for you.
Ultimately, the title of the movie doubles as both a baseball maneuver as well as well as a symbol of how we must sometimes take chances in life in order to truly feel alive & vibrant. To paraphrase Rilke, the best life is one where one "lives dangerously."
Summary of Stealing Home
A fading athlete hiding from society, is forced by a tragedy to returnhome where he relives the bittersweet memories of his youth.Drama DVD Video
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