Major League

Major League (1989)

  • 81% of critics liked it
    (37 reviews)

  • 78% of users liked it
    (86,255 ratings)

Inheriting the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her late husband, covetous ex-showgirl Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton) wants to move the franchise to Miami, primarily to take advantage of the many personal perks she's been promised by that city. But Cleveland won't yield its lease on… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
David S. Ward
Genres
Sports & Fitness, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 7, 1989 Wide
Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando Sentinel

    It has its moments, but it also has long, slow stretches where you feel like standing up and wandering around and maybe going out to hunt up a beer. That's fine for baseball, but it's not the way movies are supposed to work.

  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Somebody should tell Ward that winning isn't everything. Character is. And this is what his movie lacks.

  • Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

    Major League doesn't try too hard or aim too high, but it is pretty funny.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Slick predictability is about all it has in mind, down to the last trite freeze-frame.

  • , Variety

    For sheer crowd-pleasing fun it belts one high into the left-field bleachers.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    A by-the-book, losers-come-from-behind sports movie, with its characters charmingly portrayed to make it all go down easy. Uecker steals the film. And note the frequency of Bud Lite product placement, nearly a joke all by itself.

  • Alice S


    Silly fun with great characters: Vaughn with his nerdbomber frames bedazzled with a skull and crossbones, Willie Mays Hayes with his gyrating hips that Steve Urkel must have borrowed, Cerrano with his vaguely racist voodoo worshipping. This is the first time I rooted against the… More

  • KJ P


    This movie has a lot going for it, and by the time the credits begin to role, you are going to appreciate the storytelling of how the worst team in the major leagues became the best with one season. This film is filled with great laughs, intense ball-games, a knockout cast, and some… More

  • Jeff "


    In the History of sports there's always been at least two baseball films that has stood out above all the rest. For me it's Major League and The Sandlot. Major League is truly a sports comedy classic. What makes Major League such a winner is the many memorable scenes in the… More

  • Khris N


    A genuine classic sports gem from the 1980's, this underdog movie is a classic belly of laughs, and that famous sing along which had everyone on their feet! When the new owner of the Cleveland Indians decides to purposely sabotage the team's efforts in order to have the… More

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