A coming-of-age sports story as timeless as it is quintessentially American, THE SANDLOT (1993) follows a group of kids as they navigate the trials and tribulations of growing up – with baseball as their common bond, their guiding light and even their metaphor for good times and bad. Looming large as towering figure of near-mythical stature in their adolescent world is their neighbor mysterious neighbor, the owner and resident of the eponymous sandlot – played by AFI Honorary Degree recipient James Earl Jones.
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