Movies

August, 1992

Geena Davis and Lori Petty are sisters milking cows down on the farm when a smartass scout recruits them for A League of Their own (Columbia). The year is 1943, and with such sluggers as Joe DiMaggio off to war, the All American Girls Professional Baseball League came into being. Director Penny Marshall fields a championship cast in an unabashedly sentimental journey loosely based on fact, with Madonna scoring a clean hit in a lesser role as a sexy center fielder named Mae. Tom Hanks lays it on...