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        I admit it. I’m a sucker for inspirational sports movies. And this account of the historic 1957 Little League champions from Monterey, Mexico — a warm-hearted picture directed by William Dear (Harry and the Hendersons) , written by the book’s author W. William Winokur , and starring Clifton Collins Jr.   as the manager, Cheech Marin as the team’s priest, and Moises Arias, Jansen Panatierre, Ryan Ochoa  and Jake T. Austin among the boy players (with cameos by Lou Gossett, Jr., Frances Fisher and others) — got my “Hoosiers” juices running. For all the movie’s sometime clichés, it’s a story worth telling and seeing.   

Extras: Commentary by director William Dear; Featurette; Trailer. Will Ferrell may be working too hard, selling too hard. This particular producer-chore for George Bush’s walking nightmare and doppleganger, is awful, awful. Watch Hard, Fall Hard. The usually funny Jeremy Piven , trying misguidedly to follow in the footsteps of Used Cars‘ Kurt Russell , stars as a super car dealer gun-for-hire named Don Ready, nicknamed The Goods, and hired to save James Brolin’s closeted, ailing dealership from the predatory clutches of the bank and his competitors. A lot of good actors and comedians are sunk in this — not only the miscast Piven, but Ving Rhames, Ed Helms, Jordana Spiro and Charles Napier (playing the kind of guy, who might show up at a town hall political meeting with an Uzi) and Ferrell himself, who does a skydiving scene with a non-existent parachute. That pretty much sums up the movie too, which is a clunker of clinkers. Trust me..