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Comrades of Summer [VHS]

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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!

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 .

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?

This is the best movie of all time. Watch for the guy who jumps about 30 feet after hitting a home run with his mom watching. And when Boris cleares a 20 foot fense to catch a foul ball and falls 30 feet to the concrete and still holds on to the ball. This is the most realistic movie ever!!!

Comrades of Summer is not the greatest movie ever made. It won't change your life, or bring world peace. But it is incredibly funny and well written. Joe Mantegna is great in the role of Sparky. His gruff annoyance at being sent to Russia to teach has been athletes from other sports how to play baseball is perfectly funny, and original. It's just a shame that HBO won't put it out on DVD. I recorded it off the TV when it first aired, and wore it out in a few months and never saw it on again.

awesome movie to watch again and again. makes you feel good and who doesn't need that these days? get it. you will love it.

I enjoyed "The Comrades of Summer." It had better baseball than a lot of sports movies, and the characters were engaging and entertaining. The situation of a hotshot manager who is brought down to earth by his own greed and over-reaching is a cautionary tale for all of us who think the world is our oyster. Having a railroad track running through your practice field's infield gives new meaning to the term "bad hop." I thought this was very funny stuff.

a fun movie. my biggest problem was with joe mantegna...i just couldn't picture him as a baseball player. i'm a huge baseball fan, and think you would like this film more if you are not really into baseball, but just have a general knowledg of the game. it certainly wasn't a "good" movie but it has funny scenes, and is playful. certainly not in the league of other baseball movies, though.