One Hit from Home

Very bad acting, poor video quality, looks like a home made movie. Could only sit through about 1/2 the movie and gave up. I am not concerned I might have missed a great ending, was not worth sitting through no matter the ending.

There was no character development. The main character gets some poorly acted motivational speech from Dad, and next thing you know he is a washed up drunk angry at the world. You just don't care about the outcome for the main character, and none of the characters seem believable nor even enjoyable to watch.

My 13 yo son and I watch every movie about baseball we can find, this is the only one that we did not sit through. Takes a lot for my son to agree to shut off a movie midstream.

Script has no flow. Piano music is annoying and rest of musical soundtrack does not fit many scenes. How many times do you have to star a line with "Hey"

Alrighty... So I was on Netflix field looking for an inspiring baseball movie and came upon "One Hit From Home" as I watching I began to be confused because the corny acting.. I thought maybe it was a joke and I need to just let it play out. 30 minutes into the movie...more corny acting. All the actors seemed like amateurs...it felt very awkward. The production and camera work was pretty spot on. Got some great shots. Sound track was ehhh okay I guess. All the actors were pretty terrible, felt like something I could produce.. I hate to be harsh on a movie but I wasted my time watching half of it and this is my honest review. Thanks for reading.

This movie needs a new writer and director to say the least. The spiritual message may be worthwhile, but not presented this way. I've seen better high school performances. The actors were dry and could have been cardboard cut-outs for all I knew. For those of you who are old enough, I kept waiting for the family dog, Goliath, to walk up and say, "Gee Steevie, what are you going to do now?" I stuck it out to the end to see how the story line was salvaged, but couldn't get the DVD out of the player fast enough when it finished. If the movie is recast and reworked I may give it another try, but until then, I can't recommend it.

The producing team of Davy Stone and John Meier took the two lead roles in One Hit From Home. Davy Stone plays a washed up ballplayer whose career took a nosedive after his parents were killed in a car crash. Meier who was 31 when the film was made is sadly way too old for the part of a young college baseball prodigy. In fact the only star for the Arizona State University team where Stone has returned to take a job as coach.

Both of these people and the team in general need a lot of motivation. Meier is dealing with an alcoholic father who can't cope with the death of his wife. Both of their inabilities to deal with family tragedy is the bond they share.

It's also the basis of the Christian underpinning of this sports drama. It is a Christian film but it is also suitable for mainstream audiences and has a good message to it about you never know what life will bring you around the next corner, good or bad.