Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/12/2007(USA
Release Date: 04/15/2008
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 119 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, Smoking
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures
A place where baseball is more than just a game fights to hold on to the national pastime in this
drama inspired by a true story. Norway, Iowa is a little town where folks take baseball seriously -- so much so that even though Norway's high school boasts less than a hundred students, their baseball team has brought home the state championship nineteen times.
Jim Van Scoyoc (
Powers Boothe), Norway High's baseball coach, has received national attention for his skill with players, and when passionate baseball fan
Kent Stock (
Sean Astin) lands a teaching position nearby, he volunteers to work as an assistant for
Van Scoyoc. While
Stock cherishes his time with
Van Scoyoc, he takes a job working in Saint Louis, where he plans to move with his fiancée. However, he changes his plans when he gets some unexpected news -- due to shrinking enrollment and budget cuts, Norway's high school is soon to close, and their upcoming baseball season is likely to be their last. Over the fierce objections of his girlfriend,
Stock passes on the job in St. Louis to spend one last spring in Norway and help
Van Scoyoc as he takes one last shot at taking his team to the state championship. Meanwhile, the citizens of Norway wage a legal battle to keep the school open, and the state sends a lawyer,
Polly Hudson (
Rachael Leigh Cook), to Norway to represent them. While
Stock and
Hudson are bitter enemies at the start of the season, with time she begins to understand the sense of tradition and love of the game that fuels
Stock and the people of Norway. Also featuring
Larry Miller,
Tom Arnold and
Michael Angarano,
The Final Season received its world premiere at the 2007
Tribeca Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
