The Final Season

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The Final Season
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Directed by	David Mickey Evans
Produced by	Tony Wilson
Written by	Art D'Alessandro
Starring	Sean Astin Powers Booth Tom Arnold Rachael Leigh Cook Michael Angarano
Music by	Nathan Wang
Cinematography	Dan Stoloff
Editing by	Harry Kerimidas
Distributed by	Yari Film Group
Release date(s)	October 12, 2007
Running time	114 min.
Country
Language	English
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The Final Season is a 2007 baseball film starring Sean Astin, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold, Powers Boothe, Brett Claywell, Michael Angarano, and Marshall Bell and directed by David Mickey Evans. Sports Actions was by Rob Miller of ReelSports. The film wrapped production last summer in Norway, Iowa and Cedar Rapids, Iowa and was released in the United States and Canada on October 12, 2007 by Yari Film Group.

The film premiered three times at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, New York.^{[citation needed]} The film also premiered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on October 7, 2007.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

The true story of Kent Stock (Sean Astin), who in the early 90s, takes the job of a lifetime as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team, a school which had won 19 State titles and equated baseball with life. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes all while dealing with the reality that this will be the team's final season due to an impending merger with a nearby school.

In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but somber note.

[edit] Cast

Sean Astin as Kent Stock
Rachael Leigh Cook as Polly Hudson
Michael Angarano as Mitch Akers
Powers Boothe as Jim Van Scoyoc
Tom Arnold as Burt Akers
Brett Claywell as Patrick Iverson
Marshall Bell as Harvey Makepeace
Jesse Henecke as Principal Halberstorm
Larry Miller as Roger Dempsey
Roscoe Myrick as Sammy
Angela Paton as Ann Akers
Nick Livingston as Kevin Stewart

[edit] Reception

The Final Season received mainly negative to mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a "Rotten" rating of 25%, based on 40 reviews.^[1] On Metacritic, the film hadsan average score of 44 out of 100, based on 15 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".^[2]