Summer Catch (2001)

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I like Jessica Biel! She's super cute. It's worth watching once. It is more of a youth or teen flick though. It's just a simple romantic comedy/drama. We need them too! We are more used to watching the Hallmark Channel movies, so this was a bit different for us. This came on the MLB Channel...makes sense since it was about baseball. I think it deserves a higher rating, maybe not a 7 or 8, but a 6 is way better.

Local boy Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.) has been mowing lawns and baseball fields for his father Sean (Fred Ward). It's an important time for summer Cape Cod Baseball League as college kids like Billy Brubaker (Matthew Lillard), Miles Dalrymple (Marc Blucas), and Mickey Dominguez (Wilmer Valderrama) come to show their skills to major league teams. It's the first summer that Ryan is going to play despite any distractions from Dede Mulligan (Brittany Murphy). However he has a tendency to self destruct after the death of his mother. John Schiffner (Brian Dennehy) is the coach. One of Ryan's job is for the rich Parrishes with daughter Tenley (Jessica Biel). His big brother Mike (Jason Gedrick) missed his chance and is now the local bartender.It's suppose to be funny but it's just stupid. Everything is a joke to these characters. If they don't take it seriously, then why should the audience. Freddie Prinze Jr. is annoyingly brash. In the first ten minutes, he shows himself to be a whiny idiot. With his big chance on the line, he's got one girl and then chases another. Jessica Biel doesn't have much heat or any chemistry. She's got a beautiful body and that's the only thing on display here. She has one of the cheesiest lines. They get together right away losing any courtship heat. Brittany Murphy has more energy and it would have been interesting for her in the lead. I know it's a rom-com. The problem is that the rom is a bore and the com is pathetic. The jokes are basically hot guys strutting around in a thong. There is also a bad baseball faux-pas when coach Schiffner commented that he's pitching a no hitter. It's just one more thing that annoyed me.

Enjoyable. Yes.Predictable. Yes.Nothing much here but a nice little movie about baseball. Yet another film that looks and sounds like it was supposed to be a made for TV movie. The movie's saving grace is "eye candy" Freddie who looks great in - and out - of uniform. Make this film a drinking game: down a shot every time the writers find another way to get Freddie naked, shirtless or running around in his underwear.Lots of minor characters with uninteresting story lines. The trailer makes this film seem like another teen sex romp but it really is more focused on baseball.

The ads for the film looked alright so I thought I would give it a shot because I like Freddie prize junior . I love romantic comedies but this is just so predictable. How many more movies do we have to put up with where the main character has to achieve something great and/or is soul searching. Then suddenly they find all they are looking for in a gorgeous member of the opposite sex. Then they face some huge problem and then just right at the end all their problems disappear. Does that sound familiar to anyone? But basically for anyone who hasn't seen the film its about a guy Ryan (Freddie) who wants to succeed at baseball. He has some problems at home with his dad and brother. He meets Jessica Biel and they fall in love. Her parents have some problems with him as he's poor but in the end they decide to stay together.