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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