October 10, 200719 yr Kent Stock (Sean Astin) disrupts his life to become coach of the Norway High School baseball team and try to lead them to victory. The Final Season is baseball movie filming here in Iowa (Cedar Rapids). Its being pimped all over the place. Sean Astin, Rachel Leigh Cook Dominican baseball star Miguel "Sugar" Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0990413/ I doubt this will be a big movie but the baseball parts were being shot atat my home town stadium (John O'Donnell) which is about a 5 minute walk from where I live. It really is a beautiful stadium and will be fun to see it in a movie. The director is the same one who made Half Nelson, which was critically acclaimed, so hopefully this turns out well. I'm pretty happy the new governor is encouraging films to be made here. I can't imagine either movie will be "awesome" but I'm a sucker for baseball movies, and sports movies in general.
October 12, 200719 yr Author I've heard great things about The Final Season Thats good to hear because Rotten Tomatoes is tearing it apart. Pretty amazing story though.. a city of 600 has produced 14 major leaguers and 19 state championships in 25 years.
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