A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992)
One of my biggest movie pet peeves: when an ending is so obvious you can practically map it out within the first five minutes (ahem...A Walk To Remember and Just My Luck). A League of Their Own, however, threw quite a surprising curveball. I was rooting for Dottie Henson (Geena Davis) and her team, the Rockford Peaches, throughout the entire film, so when it came time for the championship game pitting the Peaches against — shocker! — Dottie's sister Kit (Lori Petty) and the Racine Belles, I was sure the Peaches were going to win. So imagine my surprise when catcher Dottie, faced with a chance to strike out Kit, purposefully dropped the ball and let her little sister take home the title (and, for once, the glory). It's a home run in my book. —Lindsay Soll
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