My grandmother was my best friend and she passed at 94 yrs old. This was her favorite movie (our movie) I believe in signs, and I've been really sad and thinking of her. Your channel popped up with our movie. The day I buried her, this movie came on. I'm trying to write this with tears rolling down my face. Great reaction and thank you. This was my sign. I needed this. ❤
I'm sure your grandmother is watching over you and I'm so happy that we were able to remind you of her. Keep her memory close to your heart. I'm sure she loved you more than you will ever know. - Toni 🤓❤️
@carriemichelle322 My grandmother (d. at 91) was my best friend, too! That wasn’t always the case, but I got to live with her during quarantine. Due to shared insomnia, we ended up bonding over TV and movies. I showed her a bunch of Marvel stuff and even took her to see Black Widow once theaters started re-opening. She LOVED the complicated family dynamics (and action!), so now that’s my go-to film when I’m missing her 🥹 Bonus memory: Grandma didn’t realize that Marvel’s post-credit scenes were actually included in the theatrical showing and LOUDLY asked why “none of these other people” in our row were leaving once the movie had “ended”
@@popculturallychallengedReaction request-Tokyo Vice season one (an HBO/Max Yakuza crime drama that's great), highly underrated but it's easily an 8.5/10 for me, and the second season finished streaming recently on Max; I'm waiting on a UK release date for season two. The series is based on the true story of American journalist Jake Adelstein. All the best from the UK 👍🏽🏴
No they are not. They are well established actresses with well over 100 combined roles dated back decades. Lynn Cartwrite, Eunice Anderson, Partricia Wilson, Barbara Erwin, Vera Johnson, Kathleen Butler, Betty Miller, Eugeni Melin, and Barbara Peliven.
@@jcarlovitch I think we are talking about two separate things. You're talking about the older players talking with the older Dottie. I'm talking about the scenes over the credits with the women actually playing baseball.
@@popculturallychallengedI can tell you that regardless of the discrepancies between comments here. YES those are some of the original league not actresses. Cooperstown NY is in upstate NY...my brother was a coach down here on Long Island. We're a huge baseball family and he actually got donations of money and services in order to get a ball field built here for the kids. He said if I can find a way to get the funding will you approve the permit when the town hall meeting refused the idea. Cooperstown has been a part of both my brother lives and all 5 of my nephews since the late 1980s early 1990s when get first got married. We're a Yankees family, one sister in law grew up right by Yankee stadium! This IS a family pilgrimage and it had been a weekend getaway while dating...it was the test weekend before they'd continue dating. It's a giid few hrs from here plus it's not as exciting like a club plus the town is small. We live like 30 miles outside of NYC, life isn't going to be fast and expensive tastes you see why it's the test. How bored are uou gonna be in a 72 hr period Witt travel cuz you won't make it 50 yes of sometimes boring life. 😂 Yes that was Squiggy, he'd stayed friends with Laverne aka Penny Marshall who directed this movie. Her father was who run the league and chocolate bar company in the movie in case you didn't recognize him. Ohhh yes that's Gary Marshall. I'm surprised you difnt recognize Rosie O'Donnell because she was like the bff of Madonna and has a distinctive voice. She's a Long Islander btw who started in comedy clubs here. XOXO 😊 #NYGenXBIKERLady
The guy dancing wirh Madonna was Eddie Mekka. He played Carmine (aka the Big Ragoo) on Laverne and Shirley. He was an excellent Singer and Dancer. One of Baseball Stadium Announcers calling the game was David Lander who played Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley. The Baseball Scout was played by Jon Lovitz (from Saturday Night Live). Many of his insults and funny comments weren't in the script and were adlibs by Lovitz himself. Jimmy Duggan (Tom Hank's character) was based on the Real Manager of the Rockford Peaches former Star Player Jimmy Foxx. Kit (Lori Petty) has a Cult following as the title character in the movie Tank Girl. The horrible bruise on the Actesses leg was real. It took a year for it to heal.
The director of this movie was 'Laverne' herself Penny Marshall, and 'Walter Harvey', the guy who hired Tom Hanks' character, is Garry Marshall, Penny's brother. The lady who played Betty 'Spaghetti' is Penny Marshall's daughter, Tracy Reiner, who was adopted by Rob Reiner when he married Penny.
In regards to whether Kit and Dottie talk or not when they’re older, in the beginning of the movie Dottie says she doesn’t think Kit will go to the dedication bc Kit travels a lot with her husband. So I think they just don’t get to see each other much, not bad blood or anything like that.
So glad you two saw this great movie. The song at the end, Madonna's "This used to be my playground " always makes me nostalgic about my childhood playing ball at the nearby park when I was very young.
I can’t hear that song now without thinking of the last year of Veterans Stadium where I saw a lot of games and learned about baseball. They played it throughout the season with former players reminiscing about their time playing with the Phillies there.😢😢
This movie is part of the trifecta for me. It is completed with Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias, both of which I highly recommend. I’m glad you liked this one.
Yes that’s such a hard scene when the mail man comes in with the letter from the war department. Tear time for Toni! That scene gets me every time too!!
I think that scene also reminds us that there's a war going on. These women are dealing with their husbands or loved ones overseas, while still playing baseball to entertain the people back home. It also gets me each time...
I saw this Woman's Baseball exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Copperstown, NY. During the closing credits actual members of the Girl's Baseball league are shown playing at Doubleday field in Cooperstown.
yeah, me, too! My dad took me and my 2 brothers to the Baseball Hall of Fame back in the 90s. I played softball, both of my brothers played baseball, and all 3 of us played in our town's leagues. Also, at the time, I had seen "A League Of Their Own" prior to the trip, so I was most excited about seeing the Women's Baseball exhibit!
I love Jon Lovitz in this. He steals the show. I heard Penny Marshall the director talking about him in the film. She said he was concentrating so much a cow fell over next to him in the barn and gave birth and he didn't even notice! She said they put grapes in the cuffs of his trousers so the chickens would flock to him... The actress playing Betty Spaghetti is Penny Marshalls daughter.
This movie is a love letter to our nostalgia. Any middle school kids watching this movie should take this movie as inspiration to join their school's after school team because we only get only so much time to be young and innocent in school to form these memories and character.
This movie is based on historical events, this isn't a "pep" talk to inspire kids to become active in sports - it's meant to teach/remind people of what living during wartime was like, what was sacrificed...., lest we do it again. Men - Husbands/Fathers went off to war, leaving their families alone. Women had to take their place here at home to keep the economy running - the economy that provided everything needed to keep their men safe and win the war.
BTW the correct answer when you wife says, "You haven't taken me to a steak dinner" is not, "I'm sure I have" it's, "just tell me when you want to go." ;)
My grandmother took me and my other 2 brothers to see this at the theater when we were kids. Glorious memory. Fantastic movie that I'm sure my grannis connected with so much.
Just realized at the end Tom Hanks' character shaved for the first time in the film. He's so out of the practice of doing so that he cut himself - as evidenced by the paper on his jaw. He's clearly completed the redemption arc.
The shingles you noticed are either what we call shake, which are small wood planks (typically cedar), or architectural (asphalt made to look like shake).
Toni I loved your expression when the “chaperone got kissed by Tom!! And David I loved that you caught the Wizard Of Oz reference after Tom kissed her!!
Cooperstown is a small town. It is beautiful. It is well worth the trip. Just don't go in the summer. Go in November. Or early March. You won't be disappointed.
"Avoid the Clap" - Jimmy Dugan 😆. That line always gets me. Such a great movie. For all of Tom Hanks' great performances and accolades, this is my favorite performance of his. Great reaction! Cheers from Hart, Michigan.
Re: Peeing, I heard Penny Marshal (the director) was controlling the flow off-stream and didn't tell Hanks how long it would go on. Makes for a funny improvisation.
The dancing guy with Madonna, got famous, with the director gary Marshall and penny Marshall, who were started and big in tv, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley. He played a wannabe actor dancer singer boyfriend, for Shirley!
Just found this.... so happy you guys reacted to this!! it's one of my comfort movies!!.... on movies like this i always love to back and rewatch the movie with the commentary playing in the background... you learn sooo many interesting facts and tid-bts that you would've never known.
Can't believe you cut out the scene of the girl that couldn't read her name. Thought that was a nice scene with some emotion that you would appreciate.
Movie Fact: The leg injury at 22:35 is real, no makeup. They played baseball for real in the movie. The actress, Renée Coleman, bruised her leg while sliding into a base.
Watching Tom Hanks act like a dick is rare and it actully was a bit funny. This is a nice movie, specially since it's based in a true story. Nice reaction guys
5:48 - Longer legs does NOT mean faster! (being taller than average, with long legs, I hear that all the time) Shorter legs generally have a higher turnover. What's faster, fewer longer strides, or more shorter strides?
What you said is 100% true... BUT (isn't there always a 'but'?), from someone who is short with very short legs, the turnover does even up the speed, yes. It also wears us out a lot faster, unfortunately. Sprinting is fine. Longer distances, no way! Those long strides will kill us every time! 😉👍
@@leslieoneal4464 - Well, the strength of leg muscles for running are dependent on the cross section (area) of the muscle fiber, and the mass is dependent on the volume. As something gets bigger, the 3-dimensional mass increases at a faster rate than the 2-dimensional area, so our larger mass will kill US every time. May be why short distance sprinters are usually much more muscular than the long distance runners.
Love this movie. Yes the AAGPBL was a real thing and yes they are in the baseball hall of fame. It really opened the door for women’s sports. I played softball through high school and college and we would have team sleepovers and we always watched this movie.
Every time one of your videos pop up in my feed, I immediately get flooded with memories of the EXACT scenes where I know Toni is gonna lose it.. and I think oh no!
@@popculturallychallenged you're welcome back then when the movie came out I used to be a fan of Madonna's music back then but I can't stand her now as a person but she did used to have good music back in the day
There was a series of deleted scenes, but unfortunately RU-vid took them down. The best one was right after Marla left the train station, when they were on the train eating. The infamous "peeing" scene in the locker room was basically improvised. Penny Marshall was off-camera pouring water in a bucket from a hose and Tom just reacted to everything she did. This film was an absolute classic. And now, at 60, I still my cry eyes out every single time at the end. Every. Single. Time.
I told my girls i would take them to a baseball game that had fireworks at the end and buy them all the snacks and food they want. It's been 10 years still waiting for one to say yes. 😅😅😅😅😅
I've loved this film for decades but one thing never added up for me. So Kit and Dottie never saw one another again until the end ceremony? I mean Dottie played one year and went back to Oregon the same state she and Kit were from so it's weird that they imply that they didn't see each other again for 40-50 years.
Good point. I thought maybe Kit had died at one point. Maybe they just weren't as close as they once were.... maybe life got in the way..... I would have hoped at the very least holidays. Who knows.... - Toni 🤓
It looks like Toni is getting her way this week! I'm sorry if many of you think this movie is soft, but I DID send it to her, I just didn't think she'd watch it so quick 😅 I'm gonna to send some Horror & Thrillers soon to even up the score!
Sir, I think you owe your lovely wife a steak dinner. Those are the rules, last time I checked. A power move is to give her some flowers, and chocolates when you ask her, or so I have been told.
I find it amusing, at Rosie O'Donnel's expense, that every reaction I watch of this movie, no one seems to know who she is, not just the reactors but the commenters too. Such a blow to her and her sense of notoriety/celebrity.
In the peeing scene Tom Hanks had no idea how long he would have to improvise reactions for. Penny Marshall rigged a hose to a bucket and simply controlled the flow rate that he had to act to but never told him how long the take would be.
I was told that this movie has raised more money for animal shelters than any fund raisers have been able to do. That is how this movie has moved people.
Well we don't have very many baseball games close to us but we are planning for the weekend of the 17th.... We'll see if we make it happen. Dinner is on the calendar for tomorrow for our anniversary, looking forward to that so much! Not really David's fault, I'm always busy so we never have time to do those things. LOL - Toni 🤓
"THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!"😂But I think We can all make an Exception for Toni, as I suspect that there will be a few tears🥲near the End of this Beautiful Movie tonight!👌
I hope you guys know who Jon Lovitz is, people who don’t know don’t appreciate his role here, they think he’s just rude, they fail to see he’s also hilarious. But it’s younger people usually, you know, Gen ❄️
"There's no crying in baseball!" I love Lori Petty. It is a shame she did a number of bad movies (not this one) and fell off the map. Tank Girl (1995) was at her best, even if the rest of the movie was a disaster. Fun Fact: The screenwriters wrote the part of Ernie Capadino especially for Jon Lovitz. Action Star Fact Fact: Geena Davis really does catch a pop up behind her back. It was supposed to be done by a stunt double, but the double was having trouble. So Davis gave it a go. Sweet Karma Fact: After they bring out the Peaches for their first game, and announce all of them, they run out on the field. In the background, you can see Rosie O'Donnell trip over a wire and fall down. Authentic Battle Damage Fact: Many of the injuries and bruises in the film were real injuries that the actresses received during filming. The "strawberry" bruise Renée Coleman received on her thigh while sliding into a base remained for over a year. Historical Fact: Tom Hanks' character, Jimmy Dugan, is loosely based on real-life baseball sluggers Jimmie Foxx and Hack Wilson. The film portrays the league as initially unpopular and unprofitable, until demeaning gimmicks are used to attract male audiences. In reality, the league was popular and profitable from the start, largely because it played in towns in the upper Midwest that had no way of watching a live baseball game. Eventually, the league grew into a ten-team two-division league. The advent of televised baseball games in the early fifties, however, would lead to the demise in the popularity of the league. The storyline was inspired by the career of baseball legend Dottie Collins. During World War II, Collins played for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and pitched seventeen shutouts during her six-year career.
This is one of two movies my brother made sure I watched when I was researching the Brooklyn Dodgers and starting to learn about baseball. It always makes me both laugh and weep. (p.s. the other movie is "Major League"). I have a book about the Women's League; and my brother intended to take us both on a trip to CoopersTown as a birthday gift that October I was researching, to see the exhibit, but weather interfered and we wound up in Montauk instead for the day.
Great reaction! Loved this movie when it came out, everyone was so good in it. Regarding you questioning Madonna's song, "This Used to Be My Playground", the song was released as a single in 1992, and it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
I adore this movie and still can't believe it was so criminally overlooked at the Oscars! It deserved the Best Picture, Best Director (Penny Marshall), Best Actress (Geena Davis), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Hanks), Best Original Song (Madonna) nominations!!!
The "Betty Spaghetti" reveal scene in the locker is a truly masterfully done reveal scene and it gets everyone teary eyed, the scene when we find out Shirley can't read is another great scene too.
I knew Toni would love this movie. It was good to see some happy tears. My favorite lines are "If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." and "You got yourself in the league. I got you on the train." I also love the respect Jimmy grew to have for Dottie, when, after her husband tells Jimmy he was a big fan, he replies back "Oh, hey, hey, well then, I'm a big fan of yours." Great movie.
THe girl with the large leg bruise was actress Renee Coleman and she had that contusion for over a year after filming. Talking about taking one for the team?!?!?!??!
lol I hadn’t seen your comment and said the same thing! This was filmed partially in my hometown so I have a special place for it ❤ I loved that they chose actresses that could actually play
Fun facts: Betty "Spaghetti" Horn was played by Tracy Reiner, daughter of director Penny Marshall and Rob Reiner. If you saw Apollo 13, she played Fred Haise's wife. The Man dancing with Madonna is Eddie Mekka, a dancer and best known for playing Shirley's boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa on LaVerne and Shirley. There were 65 former members of the AAGPBL at the HOF ceremony and game. Megan Cavanaugh (Marla Hooch) did all her own hitting. The other actresses also played but there were a couple of stand ins for crucial hitting scenes, except hers.
A few bits of information for you guys. -The AAGPBL was real and ran for almost 12 years. -Mr. Harvey was modeled after old man Wrigley, the gum king. His name was Philip Knight Wrigley, and his father, William Wrigley, Jr. created the company. Thus Wrigley Field is named after the family in Chicago. -My third grade teacher went to a casting call for extras for the stadium seating scenes, and was in the film. However, I have yet to find her in the stands after 30 plus years of trying to spot her. -This film is a classic! ❤
Definitely based on a true story about the AAGPBL which lasted 11 years I believe. I had the honor of meeting 2 of the real players in the league. The league existed in a very small region of the country in factory towns that were geared up for the war. Racine Wisconsin. Rockford Illinois. Fort Wayne Indiana, South Bend Indiana. Battle Creek Michigan, Grand Rapids Michigan, and Chicago Illinois. If you look on a map the cities look really close together. But, with no interstate highways yet and riding a bus. It must have felt forever between towns.
Hey guys great reaction! I always enjoy you guys. Toni....I knew it would get you. This is one of my favorite baseball movies. I've actually been to Cooperstown and seen the exhibit. Its breathtaking and its AWESOME to know that it's part of pro baseball history. I love seeing the actual players playing at the end while madonna's song is playing
My grandmother got one of those telegrams about my Uncle Joe his whole platoon was killed but lucky for him he was bitten by a dog and in a Military hospital getting checked for rabies so he ended up having to stay behind because of a dog bite. He had survivor's guilt for the rest of his life. He passed last year rip Uncle Joe
