More than that, all of the players are up against the promiscuous predatory women of Cape Cod. Ryan must go up against some tough players from around the country. This year the coach (played by Brian Dennehy) gives Ryan a break. Ryan is a lawn boy, which he notes is something less than a gardener, who has tried for years to make the Cape league. It combines a few sweet virtues with abhorrent perversions, trying to make everyone happy.Īccording to the hero/narrator, Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) every year the hottest ball players descend on Cape Cod to play in the Cape’s elite baseball league so that they can possibly be picked up by a major league baseball team. SUMMER CATCH is another one of the paint by numbers, Hollywood-follow-your-heart, sex-will-help-you-achieve-your-goals, muddled movie. (PaPa, B, Ab, LLL, V, SS, NN, AA, DD, MM) Pagan worldview with many immoral sexual elements & perversions, plus a few moral elements, such as a son reconciles with father & brother, young man gives up his big game to rescue a friend & young man rescues four people from fire, but woman successfully seduces Christian baseball player 8 profanities & 45 obscenities as well as numerous double entendres for sex, several ribald sex gags, & borderline blasphemies very light violence, such as scuffling between baseball players & burning building constant sexual activity with no displayed fornication but plenty of before & after shots, girl pours beer held between legs into boy’s mouth in a sexual manner, older nymphomaniac attempts to seduce young baseball players by discussing her kinky sexual activities, young baseball player with very fat girl hops into bed with her, & much more upper male nudity, women in revealing thongs, & women in wet T-shirts lots of drinking smoking & discussions of drug use and, prudish Christian, fathers made to look bad when they want the best for their children, deception by children of parents, and possible PC slant against Southerners. Elevating SUMMER CATCH above the usual B-movie production values is some beautiful cinematography on the beguiling Americana of Cape Cod and lithe young bodies engaged in SUMMER CATCH. Mike Tollin's direction is serviceable, but he loses his actors frequently. It combines a few sweet virtues with perverse and abhorrent sexual immorality, trying to make everyone happy. SUMMER CATCH is another one of the paint by numbers, Hollywood-follow-your-heart, fornication-will-help-you-achieve-your-goals, muddled movie. The sexually promiscuous local girls, however, are all too willing to cool off the boys when the ninth inning ends. As friction builds between his loyal townie friends and his cocky teammates, college superstars jockeying for attention, and between Ryan and Tenley’s father, Ryan’s rivalry with hotshot pitcher Eric Van Leemer nears the boiling point. A wealthy Vassar girl named Tenley Parish, played by Jessica Biel of TV’s 7TH HEAVEN, sees Ryan mowing her father’s lawn and sets out to make him her trophy of the summer. SUMMER CATCH stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., as Ryan Dunne, a working class college baseball player trying to make it into the Major Leagues in Cape Cod in an elite league that attracts pro scouts.
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