Summer Catch

Summer Catch (2001)

  • 7% of critics liked it
    (83 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (48,890 ratings)

This blend of sports and youthful romantic comedy is from director Michael Tollin, who previously produced the sports drama Varsity Blues (1999). Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Ryan Dunne, a ballplayer who's spending the summer as a pitcher for the famed, highly prestigious Cape Cod League, a… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 48 min.
Directed By
Michael Tollin
Written By
Kevin Falls, John Gatins
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 24, 2001 Wide
On DVD
Dec 4, 2001
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Joe Leydon, Variety

    When it comes to funny business, Tollin's got game, and he makes the most of some talented supporting players on his bench.

  • Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

    [An] awful light drama.

  • , Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Don't catch it. Drop it.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Because I'm a baseball fan, I tend to be an easy mark for baseball-themed movies, but something as badly focused and feebly scripted as Summer Catch just makes me wish for the Fall.

  • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

    Depending wholly upon the blinkered empathy of daydreamy teen viewers, a typical FPJ movie skims over character, plot, and dialogue.

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  • John M


    Cute film but not much really to it.

  • Lenny M


    Freddy and Matthew Lillard two of the worst actors since the millennium. Brittany Murphy awful, Jessica Biel good lawd shawty, but movie is pretty bad. Terrible Boston accents only make this movie worse.

  • Dean M


    Class consciousness sustains the primary drama in this well-intentioned little tale. Freddie Prinze Jr. plays a blue-collar kid from Cape Cod who joins a roster of college hopefuls in an effort to get signed by a professional baseball team. That portion of the story plays out… More

  • Rachel F


    It was ok.

  • Deb S


    Summer Catch is a really fun sports movie starring Freddie Prinze Jr., gorgeous Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard as the comic relief....I find this guy hilarious and just too funny for words, Brittany Murphy, Marc Blucas and cameo by Beverly D'Angelo. Ryan (Freddie Prinze Jr.)… More

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