The Sandlot
The Sandlot (released in some countries as The Sandlot Kids) is a 1993 American coming-of-age sports comedy film co-written, directed, and narrated by David Mickey Evans. It tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary, and James Earl Jones. The filming locations were in Midvale, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah. It grossed $34 million worldwide and has become a cult film.
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| Narrated by | David Mickey Evans
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| Running time | 101 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $7 million
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| Box office | $34.3 million
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- The older and younger Benny are played by real-life brothers, Pablo Vitar and Mike Vitar.
- When the boys are in the pool watching Wendy Peffercorn, the dialog: "She don`t know what she`s doing" and the answer "Yes she does, she knows exactly what she`s doing" is the same as in a similar scene in Cool Hand Luke (1967).
- When the narrator is describing how everyone grew up towards the end, he says that Bertram (Grant Gelt) "got really into the sixties, and no one ever heard from him again". In real life, Gelt would go on to land a part in _"`60s, The" (1999)_ .
- In order to establish the close bond between Smalls and Benny, the director had Tom Guiry and Mike Vitar meet and rehearse together weeks before the rest of the kids showed up to film. It worked so well that the other kids genuinely believed the two actors had been friends for a long time.
- The dog "Hercules" was an English Mastiff
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