Product Details

• Actors: Joe Mantegna, Natalya Negoda, Michael Lerner, Mark Rolston, John Fleck
• Directors: Tommy Lee Wallace
• Writers: Robert Rodat
• Producers: David Pritchard, Tim Braine
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630271544X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,995 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER GREAT MOVIE NOT ON DVD, August 31, 2007

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Linlou - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comrades of Summer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I love this movie. Imagine a spoiled, pampered American baseball player getting talked into teaching the "All American Sport" to a team of Russian athletes, most of which have never played the game. I thought Joe Mantegna was great in this roll. The wheeling and dealing with the Russian "underworld" for just about everything they need is hilarious and very believable.

But as it goes with many of the great older movies, American studio execs still have not released this movie to DVD. And then they wonder why so much "bootlegging" is going on! I'll keep looking to replace my VHS with DVD, even if it means buying a bootleg copy. This is a great movie and I don't want to wait around for it to maybe show up on some overpriced premium channel. Why is it that the crappy "slice and dice" gore movies make it to DVD and the really good ones don't? Again, I'll never understand the American studio execs. Maybe their tie is cutting off the circulation to their brain!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This one was very funny !, September 23, 2002

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Vlad (russianwriter.net) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comrades of Summer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Come on guys ! This one was very funny ! Joe Mantegna teaching baseball to Russians ?! In Russia !? I am already louphing !
And some of the russians get offended ??? It is a comedy , with using GROTESQUE at it's best ! The " russian party " , after winning a game against cubans ( the fact itself - russians beat cubans in baseball , already hilarious ), when they drink vodka out of the bottles , than everybody sleeping and snoring ! Isn't it already a clue for you - it is A comedy . And it is a good one .

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Baseball Movie, June 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Comrades of Summer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is not the greatest movie of all time, but whenever it replays on HBO, I can't NOT watch. Joe Mantegna is great in this, and it has a wonderful, sappy appeal. Why are movies about baseball so good, and the sport itself so booooring?