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| Directed by | David Mickey Evans |
| Produced by | Tony C. Wilson |
| Written by | Art D'Alessandro |
| Starring | Sean Astin Powers Boothe 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 | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,159,691 (USA)[1] |
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 Action by ReelSports. The film wrapped production in 2006 in Shellsburg, 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. The film also premiered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on October 7, 2007.
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The true story of Kent Stock (Sean Astin), who in the early 1990s, 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.
The film depicts the Norway School District merging with the "Madison School District". Norway actually was consolidated into the Benton Community School District.
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.[2] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 44 out of 100, based on 15 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[3] The film grossed $1,159,691 in the USA.
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