The Outlaw League

Hi there it's time for another TIFF film. This time it's a sports movie. Once again I was unable to find the names of the actors so I'm really sorry about that. If you want to see these films they are playing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox from April 7th through 19th in Toronto. So let's play ball with The Outlaw League.

We open in a town somewhere in Canada where a boy named Nicolas goes to his favourite ball park to play some baseball with his friends. He gets their early only to discover a big pile of trash in the middle of the field. Nicolas tells his friends about it and they decide that they either need to find a new field or clean out the old one. They decide to clean it out. They finally manage to clean up the field but they keep tripping over the grass so Nicolas borrows his grandfather's lawnmower and mows the grass with it. They play some more baseball but once they leave the mayor of the town comes in and sees that all the trash is gone. She says that she was going to turn the field into a garbage dump.



The Mayor parks a fire truck in the field to keep the kids from playing. They decide to find another field but can't seem to find a good one. The come across another group of kids who like to play soccer and they also want the field back. They get Nicolas' grandfather and The Mayor's father to help with getting the truck out of the way. The Mayor comes in and they make a deal: if Nicolas can fill up the stands him and his friends get to keep the field.

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They form a team with Nicolas' grandfather as a coach. But on the first day of practise his Grandfather shows up drunk. Nicolas gets mad at him but he promises to be a better coach. They play a game against a bunch of adults in town and the place is packed everyone in town shows up there which means that the mayor doesn't close down the field. The End.

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This was a pretty good movie. It has good acting some nice heart warming moments and a interesting premise but there are some bad things. This is a short film but the pacing makes it seem so much longer then it actually is and there isn't much variety in music. But I did like this movie and I can't wait to see the final TIFF Kids film on my list.