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The Last Home Run
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'The Last Home Run' is a 1996 film directed by Bob Gosse.
It tells the story of Jonathan Lyle, an elderly man in a nursing home (played by Seymour Cassel) who is transformed by a mystic, for five days, into a 12-year-old boy (played by Thomas Guiry) playing Little League Baseball.[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=465498 'The Last Home Run']. - Turner Classic Movies.
'The Last Home Run' also starred Jordi Vilasuso and Vinnette Justine Carroll (in her last film appearance), and included cameos by former Major League Baseball players Gary Carter and Dave Winfield.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158719/ 'The Last Home Run']. - Internet Movie Database.
It was based on a story by Roger Flax who wrote the screenplay along with Ed Apfel.Flax, Roger, and Ed Apfel (1995). - 'The Last Home Run' (Screenplay). - Short Hills, NJ: Horizon Productions. -
The independent film was produced in 1995, and was released direct-to-video on March 23, 1996.[https://www.amazon.com/Last-Home-Run-Tom-Guiry/dp/6304950411 'The Last Home Run']. - Amazon.com.
The movie marked the only film appearance by the real Marley, the Labrador Retriever that was the central character of the best-selling 2005 book 'Marley & Me' and the 2008 film of the same name. Author John Grogan devoted Chapter 16, "The Audition", to the dog's escapades during filming at a Lake Worth, Florida, hotel parking lot. Marley got a screen credit "Marley the Dog...As Himself" for his two minutes of screen time.Grogan, John (2005). - 'Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog'. - New York: HarperCollins. - pp.149-161. -
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