Really this is just another TV movie, but it’s lifted way higher than it deserves by great performances, not only by Drew Barrymore but also by Robert Young as her grandpa. She may have thought she was fat and ugly at this point in her life but I think she’s simply adorable, not to mention she’s really beginning to show her talent as an actor – you can also see an astonishing amount of the perky 30-something she’s become in this particular performance … it’s pretty kooky at times.

Once again the story bears at times weird similarities to Barrymore’s own life and there are a lot of standalone moments that for me called to mind the images I got in my head while reading her autobiography, it’s kind of weird. There’s something about the movie, too, which lifts it above a lot of other movies of its kind, and that’s the way that no matter how cheesy it gets (and it does, believe me, it does), it always feels like it actually happened somewhere and that the story means something to the people behind it. Maybe it was the baseball connection too, but in this way it reminded me of the Jodie Foster movie Stealing Home. It’s nothing special, but it is at times overwhelmingly cosy, and I can’t say too often how in love with Drew Barrymore I am right now.

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