Mr. Baseball

Mr. Baseball


Starring:Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Aya Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert, Toshi Shioya, Kosuke Toyohara, Toshizo Fujiwara, Mak Takano, Kenji Morinaga, Joh Nishimura, Norihide Goto, Kensuke Toita, Naoki Fuji, Takanobu Hozumi, Leon Lee (II), Jun Hamamura, Mineko Yorozuyo, ShĂ´ji Ohoki, Tomoko Fujita, Kinzoh Sakura
Director: Fred Schepisi
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Tom Selleck stars in this hilarious comedy about a veteran major leaguer who attempts to revive his fading career by signing to play in Japan.

Aging superstar Jack Elliot (Selleck) just isn t hitting them like he used to. In fact, the only pro ball club willing to sign him is the Chunichi Dragons in Nagoya, Japan. Cultures clash immediately when Jack hits town and proceeds to alienate everyone with his arrogance. But through the friendship of teammate Max Hammer Dubois (Dennis Haysbert, Far From Heaven) and the love of the team s beautiful translator, Jack finds a way to fit in and win in this heartwarming, action-packed comedy from director Fred Schepisi.

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Starring: Tom Selleck
Directed By: Fred Schepisi
Running Time: 109 Min., Color
Copyright Universal Studios 2003

Format: DVD MOVIE
Mr. Baseball
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A Favourite
  • funny look at life for an american in Japan
  • Excellent movie
  • A great classic
  • Must have if going to Japan
 Mr. Baseball
Starring: Tom Selleck , Ken Takakura , Aya Takanashi , Dennis Haysbert , and Toshi Shioya
Director: Fred Schepisi
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00009AOAW
Release Date: 2003-07-01

Product Description

Tom Selleck stars in this hilarious comedy about a veteran major leaguer who attempts to revive his fading career by signing to play in Japan.

Aging superstar Jack Elliot (Selleck) just isn t hitting them like he used to. In fact, the only pro ball club willing to sign him is the Chunichi Dragons in Nagoya, Japan. Cultures clash immediately when Jack hits town and proceeds to alienate everyone with his arrogance. But through the friendship of teammate Max Hammer Dubois (Dennis Haysbert, Far From Heaven) and the love of the team s beautiful translator, Jack finds a way to fit in and win in this heartwarming, action-packed comedy from director Fred Schepisi.

System Requirements:
Starring: Tom Selleck
Directed By: Fred Schepisi
Running Time: 109 Min., Color
Copyright Universal Studios 2003

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Favourite.......2007-06-02

Tom Selleck plays a spoiled, womanizing, washed-up Major League ball player who gets traded to a team in Japan. After a few temper tantrums and childish pranks he realizes that he needs to do more than coast along if his career in baseball is going to survive.

With the help of the coach (Ken Takakura), the coach's lovely daughter and his assigned interpreter he learns to respect the traditions of Japan and its people. He also learns that what you put in is what you get back. In learning he is able to teach the coach and his fellow players to enjoy the "game" of baseball.

This is ONE of my favourite baseball movies. It's witty and light entertainment that offers a glimpse into Japanese culture and the business of baseball. Selleck is believable as a baseball giant. Reviewed by M. E. Wood.

4 out of 5 stars funny look at life for an american in Japan.......2007-05-12

Mr. Baseball

Engaging film that tells it like it is about life in Japan for a visiting geijin (foreigner). Whether its navigating a bathroom for the first time to enjoying the wonders of Kobe beef or looking at the abject horror in the faces of your girlfriends parents the first time you meet them. Mr. Baseball hits a homerun. Its also an entertaining movie, arrogant (yet ever ingratiating) Selleck plays an over the hill baseball player shipped off to Japan by his agent. With the help of his new manager and the new girlfriend he meets, he learns how to grow up and fit in, but it isn't an easy learning experience.

While not academy material, this movie holds its own and your attention through out and is full of laughs as well as insight, certainly more then I expected when I picked this one up.

No extras on the DVD other then subtitles.

Enjoy, have a laugh and if you ever lived in Japan, enjoy the memories of that unique experience as they come flooding back.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent movie.......2007-04-05

Tom Selleck does a wonderful job of portraying an egotistical ballplayer who is shipped off to Japan.He is "reborn" so to speak and discovers baseball all over again. Real nice story set in a wonderful country where Baseball rules.If you like baseball stories, this is a wonderful one to add to your collection.

4 out of 5 stars A great classic.......2007-04-05

This is a great Tom Selleck classic. Twists and turns from the beginning make this a funny and enjoyable movie.

5 out of 5 stars Must have if going to Japan.......2007-03-26

The movie tells it like it is. I have lived here for 3 years and still get a laugh out of it. Hard to find here in Japan so get it before you get here.
Mr. 3000 (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • 3.5 for this pleasant movie
  • Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie
  • Not Bad But Could've Been Better
  • Plesant but predictable
  • Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!
 Mr. 3000 (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Bernie Mac , Angela Bassett , Michael Rispoli , Brian J. White , and Ian Anthony Dale
Director: Charles Stone III
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
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ASIN: B0006GAI64
Release Date: 2005-02-01

Product Description

Excellent condition, includes the dvd, case, and paperwork, different cover but same movie, fast shipped, ask me for my DVD List! :)

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Bernie Mac is perfectly cast in Mr. 3000, a feel-good baseball comedy that capitalizes on Mac's established comedy persona. He plays Stan Ross, veteran first-baseman for the struggling Milwaukee Brewers, who quit the team during a pennant race and, nine years later, discovers that he's actually three hits short of his 3,000 career-hit claim to fame. When he attempts a comeback to correct his record, his selfish past returns to haunt him, along with a former flame (Angela Bassett, who deserves better roles) who's covering Stan's return to baseball for ESPN. It's strictly formula, but the comedy is consistently entertaining, and director Charles Stone III proves that his 2002 sleeper hit Drumline was no fluke, injecting observant details into a very predictable plotline. Easily recommended, Mr. 3000 makes a good double-header with 1989's hit baseball comedy Major League. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars 3.5 for this pleasant movie.......2006-09-20

What caught my attention for this movie, is thats it pictures a selfish
man that only cares about himself and what happens when a situation changes things around. Its a baseball movie, but not all the movie is played on the field.
I was surprised and did enjoy this film all the way the the ending credits. I recommend this movie if you like smart comedies and not the ones that goes over the edge.

3 out of 5 stars Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie.......2006-07-14

Mr. 3000 is a decent film about a washed up baseball player who needs to prove himself again when he discovers he isn't "Mr. 3000" as he thought he was. The story drags in places but overall isn't that bad. If you come into this film with low expectation, you won't feel so disappointed by the end. I'm not saying that this movie is the worst thing ever. I actually thought it was pretty good, but it just doesn't make for a great movie. Luckily, I wasn't expecting an Oscar winning blockbuster film when I started to watch. Once again, the acting and everything is good, the story is just something that has been seen many times in much better films in the past.

3 out of 5 stars Not Bad But Could've Been Better.......2005-11-28

Mr. 3000 is a film about a former baseball player named Stan Ross who was a very good player....AND KNEW IT! His stats was only equaled by his arrogance and flagrant disrespect for the fans, the team that he played for and his fellow baseball players with the exception of his sidekick Bocca.

Once Stan gets 3,000 hits, he quits the team in the middle of the pennant race which leaves lingering bad feelings. Nine years later, a statistical error is discovered and Stan decides to return to the game that he once turned his back on in order to gain those 3,000 hits. He finds, however, that the game he left behind is much different and finds himself at odds with "T-Rex" Pentibaker, a hitter who is very similiar to Stan himself. Add the return of a former love (played by Angela Bassett) and you have a character who has to face himself.

It could've been better in spots but I have to agree with other reviewers that if not for Bernie Mac's performance, it would've totally stunk! Whoever decided to cast him as Stan Ross made the right call. He and Angela, in my view, have been in better films but did great with the material they had in this mildly ammusing but still relevant comedy. I call it relevant because considering all the egos in professional sports and in sports entertainment fields, this could easily be one of our real life sports hero's one day!

Anyway, worth the rent. Would buy only at a reduced price however!

3 out of 5 stars Plesant but predictable.......2005-11-06

A nice little sports/date movie about a self centered ball player who is good and knows it to the point that he is royal pain.

Classic redemption story of both himself and the prima-donna on the club when he rejoins.

Bernie Mac makes the picture and it is worth a watch, don't know if it is worth a buy.

3 out of 5 stars Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!.......2005-09-03

I find Bernie Mac engaging and humorous rather than funny in a joke telling sense. Mr. 3000 benefits from this as more of a dramatic movie with funny moments than as a comedy. That the marketing campaign kept emphasizing it was a comedy is probably one of the reasons it did not do so well at the box office. Bernie Mac and the other stars give good performances and, for a sports movie, this has some things to offer. Unlike "Major League", it is not a cartoon.

However, when you say the movie is "Very Funny" right under the title you create an expectation that this movie never intended to deliver. This movie is about a character who gets an unexpected and unwanted second chance to set things right. However, what gets set right isn't exactly what he intended to do when he began the journey. You see, that isn't a premise for comedy although humorous things do happen along the way, it is not a setup for one joke after another.

Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) is an extremely talented hitter who is so in love with his own talents and image that he simply has no clue how this affects his relations with his teammates and the fans. When he hits his three thousandth hit he ends up ripping it out of the hands of the kid who ended up with the ball. The press gets on him after the game and Ross responds by retiring from the game even though his team is in the midst of a championship run. He figures that with his three thousand hits he can't be denied his place in the Hall of Fame.

Nine years later he still isn't in the hall and during his shenanigans to try and swing the public to pressure the voters to put him in the league finds out that three of his hits were double counted. So, Ross figures the only thing to do is to jump in late in the present season to get his three hits. It turns out to not be as easy as he had hoped.

During these weeks we get to see the management's attitude towards the "sanctity" of the game and Ross's own appreciation for what he had so callously walked away from. The end of the movie is not exactly predictable, but very nice.

The problem is that all the swearing in the film (even though there is a very funny series of bits with a Japanese pitcher trying to get Yankee swearing right) and the somewhat frank (but modest) sexuality with Angela Bassett (who is very good in this film) make it a bit hard to justify as a family film. Unless your family cusses and talks about sex openly, I guess.

Better film than you might expect from its box office receipts, but a pitifully misguided ad campaign did set the wrong expectations for the public. And, if they wanted it to be a family film, less cussing and putting in romance for sex would have been better choices.
Mr. Baseball
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A Favourite
  • funny look at life for an american in Japan
  • Excellent movie
  • A great classic
  • Must have if going to Japan
 Mr. Baseball
Starring: Tom Selleck , Ken Takakura , Aya Takanashi , Dennis Haysbert , and Toshi Shioya
Director: Fred Schepisi
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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  5. Eight Men Out

ASIN: B00000I1KE
Release Date: 2001-05-15

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Favourite.......2007-06-02

Tom Selleck plays a spoiled, womanizing, washed-up Major League ball player who gets traded to a team in Japan. After a few temper tantrums and childish pranks he realizes that he needs to do more than coast along if his career in baseball is going to survive.

With the help of the coach (Ken Takakura), the coach's lovely daughter and his assigned interpreter he learns to respect the traditions of Japan and its people. He also learns that what you put in is what you get back. In learning he is able to teach the coach and his fellow players to enjoy the "game" of baseball.

This is ONE of my favourite baseball movies. It's witty and light entertainment that offers a glimpse into Japanese culture and the business of baseball. Selleck is believable as a baseball giant. Reviewed by M. E. Wood.

4 out of 5 stars funny look at life for an american in Japan.......2007-05-12

Mr. Baseball

Engaging film that tells it like it is about life in Japan for a visiting geijin (foreigner). Whether its navigating a bathroom for the first time to enjoying the wonders of Kobe beef or looking at the abject horror in the faces of your girlfriends parents the first time you meet them. Mr. Baseball hits a homerun. Its also an entertaining movie, arrogant (yet ever ingratiating) Selleck plays an over the hill baseball player shipped off to Japan by his agent. With the help of his new manager and the new girlfriend he meets, he learns how to grow up and fit in, but it isn't an easy learning experience.

While not academy material, this movie holds its own and your attention through out and is full of laughs as well as insight, certainly more then I expected when I picked this one up.

No extras on the DVD other then subtitles.

Enjoy, have a laugh and if you ever lived in Japan, enjoy the memories of that unique experience as they come flooding back.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent movie.......2007-04-05

Tom Selleck does a wonderful job of portraying an egotistical ballplayer who is shipped off to Japan.He is "reborn" so to speak and discovers baseball all over again. Real nice story set in a wonderful country where Baseball rules.If you like baseball stories, this is a wonderful one to add to your collection.

4 out of 5 stars A great classic.......2007-04-05

This is a great Tom Selleck classic. Twists and turns from the beginning make this a funny and enjoyable movie.

5 out of 5 stars Must have if going to Japan.......2007-03-26

The movie tells it like it is. I have lived here for 3 years and still get a laugh out of it. Hard to find here in Japan so get it before you get here.
Mr. 3000 (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • 3.5 for this pleasant movie
  • Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie
  • Not Bad But Could've Been Better
  • Plesant but predictable
  • Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!
 Mr. 3000 (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Bernie Mac , Angela Bassett , Michael Rispoli , Brian J. White , and Ian Anthony Dale
Director: Charles Stone III
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
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Product Features:
  • Classic DVD
  • Exclusive interviews, highlights, and behind the scenes coverage
  • DVD's main menu allow you to jump directly to the action
  • Presented in full-screen digital video

ASIN: B0006GAI5U
Release Date: 2005-02-01

Product Description

Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50.

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Bernie Mac is perfectly cast in Mr. 3000, a feel-good baseball comedy that capitalizes on Mac's established comedy persona. He plays Stan Ross, veteran first-baseman for the struggling Milwaukee Brewers, who quit the team during a pennant race and, nine years later, discovers that he's actually three hits short of his 3,000 career-hit claim to fame. When he attempts a comeback to correct his record, his selfish past returns to haunt him, along with a former flame (Angela Bassett, who deserves better roles) who's covering Stan's return to baseball for ESPN. It's strictly formula, but the comedy is consistently entertaining, and director Charles Stone III proves that his 2002 sleeper hit Drumline was no fluke, injecting observant details into a very predictable plotline. Easily recommended, Mr. 3000 makes a good double-header with 1989's hit baseball comedy Major League. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars 3.5 for this pleasant movie.......2006-09-20

What caught my attention for this movie, is thats it pictures a selfish
man that only cares about himself and what happens when a situation changes things around. Its a baseball movie, but not all the movie is played on the field.
I was surprised and did enjoy this film all the way the the ending credits. I recommend this movie if you like smart comedies and not the ones that goes over the edge.

3 out of 5 stars Bernie Mac Is The Saving Grace To What Could Be A Bad Movie.......2006-07-14

Mr. 3000 is a decent film about a washed up baseball player who needs to prove himself again when he discovers he isn't "Mr. 3000" as he thought he was. The story drags in places but overall isn't that bad. If you come into this film with low expectation, you won't feel so disappointed by the end. I'm not saying that this movie is the worst thing ever. I actually thought it was pretty good, but it just doesn't make for a great movie. Luckily, I wasn't expecting an Oscar winning blockbuster film when I started to watch. Once again, the acting and everything is good, the story is just something that has been seen many times in much better films in the past.

3 out of 5 stars Not Bad But Could've Been Better.......2005-11-28

Mr. 3000 is a film about a former baseball player named Stan Ross who was a very good player....AND KNEW IT! His stats was only equaled by his arrogance and flagrant disrespect for the fans, the team that he played for and his fellow baseball players with the exception of his sidekick Bocca.

Once Stan gets 3,000 hits, he quits the team in the middle of the pennant race which leaves lingering bad feelings. Nine years later, a statistical error is discovered and Stan decides to return to the game that he once turned his back on in order to gain those 3,000 hits. He finds, however, that the game he left behind is much different and finds himself at odds with "T-Rex" Pentibaker, a hitter who is very similiar to Stan himself. Add the return of a former love (played by Angela Bassett) and you have a character who has to face himself.

It could've been better in spots but I have to agree with other reviewers that if not for Bernie Mac's performance, it would've totally stunk! Whoever decided to cast him as Stan Ross made the right call. He and Angela, in my view, have been in better films but did great with the material they had in this mildly ammusing but still relevant comedy. I call it relevant because considering all the egos in professional sports and in sports entertainment fields, this could easily be one of our real life sports hero's one day!

Anyway, worth the rent. Would buy only at a reduced price however!

3 out of 5 stars Plesant but predictable.......2005-11-06

A nice little sports/date movie about a self centered ball player who is good and knows it to the point that he is royal pain.

Classic redemption story of both himself and the prima-donna on the club when he rejoins.

Bernie Mac makes the picture and it is worth a watch, don't know if it is worth a buy.

3 out of 5 stars Not really a comedy, but a better film than you might expect. However, too much cussing!.......2005-09-03

I find Bernie Mac engaging and humorous rather than funny in a joke telling sense. Mr. 3000 benefits from this as more of a dramatic movie with funny moments than as a comedy. That the marketing campaign kept emphasizing it was a comedy is probably one of the reasons it did not do so well at the box office. Bernie Mac and the other stars give good performances and, for a sports movie, this has some things to offer. Unlike "Major League", it is not a cartoon.

However, when you say the movie is "Very Funny" right under the title you create an expectation that this movie never intended to deliver. This movie is about a character who gets an unexpected and unwanted second chance to set things right. However, what gets set right isn't exactly what he intended to do when he began the journey. You see, that isn't a premise for comedy although humorous things do happen along the way, it is not a setup for one joke after another.

Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) is an extremely talented hitter who is so in love with his own talents and image that he simply has no clue how this affects his relations with his teammates and the fans. When he hits his three thousandth hit he ends up ripping it out of the hands of the kid who ended up with the ball. The press gets on him after the game and Ross responds by retiring from the game even though his team is in the midst of a championship run. He figures that with his three thousand hits he can't be denied his place in the Hall of Fame.

Nine years later he still isn't in the hall and during his shenanigans to try and swing the public to pressure the voters to put him in the league finds out that three of his hits were double counted. So, Ross figures the only thing to do is to jump in late in the present season to get his three hits. It turns out to not be as easy as he had hoped.

During these weeks we get to see the management's attitude towards the "sanctity" of the game and Ross's own appreciation for what he had so callously walked away from. The end of the movie is not exactly predictable, but very nice.

The problem is that all the swearing in the film (even though there is a very funny series of bits with a Japanese pitcher trying to get Yankee swearing right) and the somewhat frank (but modest) sexuality with Angela Bassett (who is very good in this film) make it a bit hard to justify as a family film. Unless your family cusses and talks about sex openly, I guess.

Better film than you might expect from its box office receipts, but a pitifully misguided ad campaign did set the wrong expectations for the public. And, if they wanted it to be a family film, less cussing and putting in romance for sex would have been better choices.
Mr. Baseball / Ed (Double Feature)
Average customer rating: Not rated
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    Baseball Triple Play (Field of Dreams / Mr. Baseball / For Love of the Game)
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Baseball Triple Play (Field of Dreams / Mr. Baseball / For Love of the Game)
      Starring: Tom Selleck , Ken Takakura , Aya Takanashi , Dennis Haysbert , and Toshi Shioya
      Director: Fred Schepisi , Sam Raimi , and Phil Alden Robinson
      Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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      Release Date: 2003-07-01
      Problem Child/Mr. Baseball
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Problem Child/Mr. Baseball
        Starring: Naoki Fuji , Tomoko Fujita , Toshizo Fujiwara , Norihide Goto , and Jun Hamamura
        Manufacturer: Good Times Video
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          ASIN: B000EOSHBG

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          3. A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
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          5. Bulgarian Lovers - Unrated Edition
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