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MPAA Rating: PG, for language and some rude humor
Age Range: 7 years and up
Genre: Family/Comedy/Baseball
Runtime: Approx. 96 minutes
Starring: Luke Perry, Keanu Pires, Danny Nucci, Sarah Deakins, Chris Gauthier

The Sandlot: Heading Home - Guide Review

Tommy Santorelli (Luke Perry) may be one of baseball's greats, but he is no team player. He is thrust out of his celebrity life, though, when a wayward pitch knocks him out and he wakes up as his 12-year-old self, lying in the middle of his neighborhood sandlot.

Once his new reality sets in, Tommy realizes that he has a second chance to be with his mother, who is dying of cancer. He has no desire to do menial things like play ball with the neighborhood boys, not matter how hard they beg. At least not until he has a run-in with some boys from a rival ball team. A desire for teaching his nemesis a lesson puts Tommy in the game pretty fast.

The stakes get even higher when the boys find out that a developer is trying to buy the sandlot in order to build some condos. Everything comes down to one game, and Tommy does everything possible to get his ragtag team ready. But in an effort to win the game and take over the sandlot, the developer makes Tommy a deal he can't refuse...or can he?

While it is the third movie in the Sandlot series, Heading Home still has a lot to offer. Couched in the American themes of baseball and dreams come true, The Sandlot: Heading Home teaches a solid moral lesson about doing the right thing, no matter what the cost.

The Sandlot: Heading Home - Note to Parents

While The Sandlot: Heading Home is a fun movie with a good moral, there are a few things parents should know about:

The movie was rated PG, for language and some rude humor. The word "buttface" is used once, but most of the other language is infrequent and not quite as colorful. Also, some humor centers around kicking someone "in the family jewels" and other such boyhood terms. Two of the boys get into an insult war, saying things like "chump" and "lamoid loser."

Throughout the story, a heavy theme runs surrounding Tommy's mother. At the beginning, when he is a man, the movie mentions that she lost her battle with cancer. Then, as a boy, he sees that she is sick and knows that she will die.