DENNIS QUAID (Jim Morris):
"This is a story about a guy who you'd think would have given up on his
dreams, but never did. The dream might have been dormant for a long time, but
he never stopped wanting to do this one thing. I think that's something
everyone can relate to."
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 JIM MORRIS:
"(Playing in the Major Leagues) was the culmination of a lifelong
dream. All I wanted to do was be there, and I got that opportunity. It's
something that I owe my high school kids for, because I never would have tried
it again if it hadn't been for them."
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JOHN LEE
HANCOCK:
"I think the sports movies that succeed are the ones that have a one-two
punch; are the ones that you go, 'Yeah, it's a baseball movie, but boy it's
about a whole lot more.' I think films like Field of Dreams and The
Natural work not because of the 'A' plot, but because of the 'B' plot.
What's happening underneath the surface is really what the movie's about."
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 RACHEL GRIFFITHS (Lorri Morris):
"I didn't see this as a baseball movie anymore than I saw Hilary and
Jackie as a movie about classical music. I think when you do somebody's
life it's always because there's a journey in there that somehow illuminates
something about the human condition. I talked to John Lee before I read the
script about the kind of movie he wanted to make, and he took Jim's marriage
and family very seriously as the center of this movie. I found it an
interesting portrait of a marriage, in exploring notions of one partner's
support of the other whilst not jeopardizing the greater good, which is the
family."
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DENNIS
QUAID:
"With all due respect, Jim is not a world renown figure where everybody
knows what he looks like, sounds like and acts like, so it wasn't all that
important to look like him, but I really wanted to capture his spirit."
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JIM MORRIS:
"I guess the biggest thing I tell people about my story is it's about
family and it's about dreams. I'm living proof that you can always achieve
whatever it is you pursue as long as you put your full heart into it."
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RACHEL
GRIFFITHS:
"(Films) somehow want to protect kids from the drama of life, and I think
this movie isn't afraid to make a child witness to the drama of life and the
struggle of these parents trying to follow their dreams, in a contemporary
rural environment where things are really tough. I was excited about the truth
of that."
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JOHN LEE
HANCOCK:
"You couldn't make this movie if it weren't true, because if you made this
as a piece of fiction everybody would be laughing, saying, 'This is the most
far-fetched thing I've ever seen. It would never happen in a million years.'
And it did."
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