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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 71721
Released: March 9, 2004 |
| Our Price: $3.87 |
| Used Price: $1.44 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Famous playwright Neil Simon’s story of a young power-hitting baseball player who falls in love with a rock singer. When they finally come together, his average goes up and they get married. But she’s bored and frustrated staying at home and hanging around with ballplayers; she wants to continue her own career. When she sings, he slumps and together they weather the rocky storm of marriage. Stars Michael O’Keefe (Caddyshack), Rebecca De Mornay (Risky Business).
The Slugger's Wife Reviews:
Bats about .300 
2009-07-07 - "I'm rotten, but I'm smart", one of the best lines uttered in this film. There are certainly some cheesey scenes and the baseball scenes themselves are not all that great, especially compared to a film like Major League. Someone else made mention of the 80's baseball film genre and that's pretty accurate. I had never heard of this film until I stumbled upon it recently at a used DVD place.
Randy Quaid is an added bonus. This is an interesting role for Michael O'Keefe, I keep picturing him as Danny in Caddyshack. I never pictured Danny setting the MLB single season homerun record. There is some bad acting in this film, some scenes are really forced. A true baseball fan will like the film. I liked the voices of the old TBS guys in some of the play calling. I also enjoyed the old Braves, Padres, Phillies and Astros uniforms. Baseball fans...add this one to the collection.
Forgotten 80's romantic comedy is a guilty pleasure 
2008-02-08 - These days, 80's movies are much-maligned. And watching movies like The Slugger's Wife, you gotta admit, a lot of stuff from back then is hard to watch. But I think this one holds up reasonably well. Movies based on Neil Simon plays were popular in the seventies, but were a bit hit-and-miss by 1985 (see also: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues). Anyway, the prime reason to catch this one--or at least it was the prime reason some two decades ago--is Rebecca DeMornay. Although it would be a stretch call her a great actress, the title role her suits her talents. And yes, that really is her singing (I'm a little ashamed to admit I have the soundtrack on cassette somewhere). As someone else has pointed out, the keyboard-heavy soundtrack does hopelessly date the film.
But if you long for a simpler time, when movies wanted nothing more than just ENTERTAIN you for a couple of hours, you could do a lot worse than The Slugger's Wife.
Not a baseball movie...But a definate 80s classic...
2007-04-11 - The first time I saw this movie I was probably either 5 or 6. This movie, along with many other 80s movies (Breakfast Club, Terminator, Weird Science, etc.) has been one of those movies that has stuck with me almost my whole life...Of course it's not the greatest movie...I agree with a lot of reviewers about the cheesy music...But it was the 80s...However the story itself is really good...
Now one thing that got to me was that they didn't release a widescreen version of the film...Instead we get this lame a** fullscreen crap which is why I didn't buy it...But luckily man created DVD Recorders and they played this movie on tv in HD and widescreen and I'm recording it as we speak so now I can enjoy this classic the way it and all movies should be enjoyed in...widescreen...
Master OF The Rare LASERDISCS Movies. 
2005-07-12 - I have The Slugger's Wife [ 1985 - NEIL SIMON] on Laserdisc,'tis a great Movie and A MUST SEE :p
Not A Baseball Movie
2005-01-06 - For those of you renting this movie or watching it on HBO or whatever, and you're expecting this to be a baseball movie, of course you might be a bit disappointed. It's not realistic as a baseball movie, it's supposed to be a romantic comedy...the baseball player falls for a singer and marries her, only to smother her with too much love. At the end, they don't get back together, which is fitting, because the door is left open for that to happen. I've seen other reviews for this movie, and I'm sorry that you didn't like it, but I thought this was a very funny, very cute movie that happened to have some baseball elements in it. Give it a break.
