Rookie of the Year (1993)

(On TV, July 2020) Wish fulfillment runs rampant in baseball fantasy Rookie of the Year, in which a twelve-year-old with a fantastic medical condition giving him an exceptional throwing speed is called to pitch for a professional sports team. It’s obviously a comedy for kids and it makes no effort to present something palatable for adults—it’s all clichés and dumb gags and formula plotting and so on. Daniel Stern directs about as broadly as he plays a comic relief role. Rookie of the Year is passably entertaining, but not by much—I suppose that it’s somewhat better if you’re a baseball-loving tweener.