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A League Of Their Own Movie Analysis
A League of Their Own By: Angela Bonetti Eng225 Introduction to Film Cicely Denean-Cobb

I Pick the Movie A League of their own it was set in the 1990’s, however it started off as one of the baseball players from the 1940’s attending their Baseball Hall of Fame. The story is told in one big flashback to the 1940’s. The physical setting of the movie was in Cities of America including Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and New York, where the Baseball teams played their games. The movie contained a lot of emotion like feelings for war, sad, Happiness, & friendship.
The World War II was Taking Place and women baseball players are being drafted for the All American girls Baseball League, in an attempt to save the sport. This seemed like a great chance for the farm girls to escape from the low down farm town. To some, baseball seems the only easy option, especially for Dottie Hinson ( Geena Davis) who can hit and Catch and Kit Keller (Lori Petty), who can throw a mean fast pitch. The scout
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Dotti was able to play in the Professional Baseball League, which gave her new experiences while her husband was at war. She learnt about family values and that her sisters love was very important to her. Dotti was also made aware that she came close to loosing her husband in the war and how much he meant to her. Kit was able to come out on top and be famous and loved by fans just as her sister was. Jimmy was able to keep his job as a baseball coach and to take an interest in the game that he left because of alcohol. The women in the baseball league were able to fight for equal rights in the male dominated world of baseball. They also learnt that they had the desire to succeed and that baseball would always be apart of their

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