{"id":11933,"date":"2022-08-14T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:27:33","slug":"three-cheers-for-the-girls-of-summer-a-league-of-their-own-hits-a-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=11933","title":{"rendered":"Three Cheers for the Girls of Summer: ‘A League of Their Own’ Hits a Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

It\u2019s the middle of August, and baseball season is at its sweetest during these hazy, lazy days when the sharp crack of a Louisville Slugger is the absolute best and onliest thing that can pierce the mosquito-laden humidity. Who needs A\/C when you have thousands of fans stirred into action as a long, languishing fly into left field arcs into the waiting glove of a lucky kid in the grandstand?<\/p>\r\n

Amazon Prime Video had the right idea when it picked this week to release eight episodes of A League of Their Own<\/strong><\/em>, a nostalgic peek at women\u2019s teams\u2014here, the Rockford Peaches\u2014who were recruited by major-league moguls anxious at keeping up morale on the home front during World War II. These \u201cRosie the Riveters\u201d of the baseball diamond remind us how essential our national pastime really is to our identity and endurance, even heaped with some generous helpings of sapphic love.<\/p>\r\n

This new TV series, created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, draws its inspiration from Penny Marshall\u2019s 1992 film for Sony Pictures that was inspired by the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Rosie O\u2019Donnell were among the cast members of that iconic production that ended up being selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry.

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Marshall said she had been motivated to make the film after seeing an earlier documentary of the same name that she\u2019d seen on television.<\/p>\r\n

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Like its 1992 counterpart, the new Amazon Prime series lovingly portrays its cast members as multidimensional characters, complete with eccentricities and character defects. The real-life All-American Girls were drawn largely from rural, small-town backgrounds, so the series can also be enjoyed as a \u201cslice of life\u201d depiction of Americana nearly a century ago.<\/p>\r\n

By frankly foregrounding issues of race and queer attraction, A League of Their Own<\/strong><\/em> reminds us, paradoxically, how far we\u2019ve come but how little we\u2019ve progressed. One of the most endearing characters is that of Max, a Black woman lovingly portrayed by Chant\u00e9 Adams.

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Because of Jim Crow-era color lines in major-league sports, she is unable to use her talents on the pitcher\u2019s mound but emerges as a staunch and fearless role model for some of the other women. (During World War II, the U.S. military still fought in segregated regiments, and the real-life Jackie Robinson would not become the first \u201cNegro\u201d major-league baseball player until several years after the war\u2019s end.)<\/p>\r\n

Also memorable are the performances by two \u201clovebirds\u201d on the team: Carson (Abbi Jacobson) and Greta (D\u2019Arcy Carden). Carson is a housewife from Idaho who tries out for the team while her husband is away in the service. The eighth episode in the series opens with a tense bedroom scene in which Carson implores her mate to allow her some \u201croom of her own\u201d time in the dugout. The episode concludes with a steamy deep-kissing scene involving Carson and Greta on the side porch as Carson\u2019s husband returns bearing a bouquet of flowers for his freedom-seeking spouse. It makes one anticipate the as yet-unrealized ninth episode (or shall we say, ninth inning?).<\/p>\r\n

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One of the most endearing scenes also comes in the eighth episode, when in a spontaneous display of sisterly solidarity, the Peaches gratuitously carry an injured opponent to home plate so she can officially be credited with a home run, even though this means defeat for the Peaches.<\/p>\r\n

Though the women athletes of the Rockford Peaches are not engaged in combat like their male counterparts in the armed services, they are portrayed in this sensitive and well-wrought series as furious fighters on their own battlefields, transgressing lines of race, color, gender stereotyping and sexual orientation. All this adds up to a richly layered narrative about women defying all odds to hit home runs, even if they land far from home.

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Grade : A<\/p>\r\n

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Here’s the trailer of the film<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n