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Release Date: 1994 Cast: John Ashton, Luke Edwards, Wolfgang Bodison, Kevin Dunn, Jason Robards, Billy L. Sullivan, Patrick M. Wright, Scott Patterson, Jonathan Silverman, Miles Feulner, Jeff Garlin, Dennis Farina ...MORE
Cast: John Ashton, Luke Edwards, Wolfgang Bodison, Kevin Dunn, Jason Robards, Billy L. Sullivan, Patrick M. Wright, Scott Patterson, Jonathan Silverman, Miles Feulner, Jeff Garlin, Dennis Farina, Timothy Busfield, Ashley Crow ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Sports, Comedy, Family Film Little Big League is a 1994 family film about a 12-year-old who suddenly becomes the owner and then manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. It stars Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield and Dennis Farina.
Billy Heywood (Luke Edwards) is preteen son to a widowed single mom, Jenny (Ashley Crow), and a Little League baseball player. Billy's grandfather is Thomas Heywood (Jason Robards), owner of the Minnesota Twins.
They are a last-place team (though the real life Twins were World Champions just three years prior), but Billy and his grandfather love each other, the Twins, and the game of... MORE
Little Big League is a 1994 family film about a 12-year-old who suddenly becomes the owner and then manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. It stars Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield and Dennis Farina.
Billy Heywood (Luke Edwards) is preteen son to a widowed single mom, Jenny (Ashley Crow), and a Little League baseball player. Billy's grandfather is Thomas Heywood (Jason Robards), owner of the Minnesota Twins.
They are a last-place team (though the real life Twins were World Champions just three years prior), but Billy and his grandfather love each other, the Twins, and the game of baseball. When the grandfather dies, it is revealed that he wants Billy to inherit the franchise. He has specified that if Billy is still a minor, Thomas Heywood's aides are to help him along until Billy is old enough to run the team by himself.
Billy quickly runs afoul of the team's manager, George O'Farell (Dennis Farina). Billy believes he is too hard on the players. O'Farrell despises the idea of working for a kid. After he insults Billy and tells him to butt out of the team's business, Billy fires him.
There is considerable difficulty finding another manager to replace O'Farrell, since no one LESS
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