The Hill

The Hill

The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.

  • Released: 2023-08-18
  • Runtime: 126 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Stars: Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn, Bonnie Bedelia, Joelle Carter, Colin Ford, Adrian Eppley, Mila Harris, Wilbur Fitzgerald, James Devoti, Mark Rowe, Monica Louwerens, Jesse Berry
  • Director: Jeff Celentano
 Comments
  • SnoopyStyle - 5 April 2024
    functional sport-Christian movie
    Rickey Hill was born with bad legs and a bad back. Nevertheless, he has a God-given skill to hit the baseball. On the other hand, his strict pastor father (Dennis Quaid) refuses to let him play and is obsessed with him following his preaching footsteps. His dream rests in the hands of legendary scout Red Murff (Scott Glenn).

    This is a biographical sports movie and Christian movie. It is a basic underdog story. I would like his father's thinking to be clearer. It could be that he wants him to preach, but it also could be his lack of faith in his abilities. It's just weirdly unknowable like a story written from the son's point of view. Dennis Quaid is operating at one gear. Scott Glenn is shocking old, but it's still great to see him. None of the younger actors are that memorable. This is fine but nothing great.
  • reamaboucharaf - 31 January 2024
    Very very boring
    Usually when a movie is about a true story, I am instantly hooked because I personally think it's kind of hard to mess that up. Sigh. This movie was so boring. Just from the synopsis I saw two very interesting angles for the movie and unfortunately they chose neither. It is mostly about Faith and God, and much less about baseball. The first act was insanely hard to get through. Around the second act it started picking up, but unfortunately led to my untimely exit with 47 minutes left in the movie. Incredibly long and I don't care how it ends. Would not recommend this to anyone. Plenty of better sports movies out there. This is barely about sports!
  • stuart-10049 - 24 January 2024
    if you like sports, you'll hate this movie
    I've played sports all my life, and I can't think of one semi-realistic scenario in this entire movie.

    The conflict with the father isn't believable. I've been around plenty of people who hate sports, but any intelligent person would recognize not only a physical gift but the grit and determination that comes with the discipline it takes to be successful at a high level of competition.

    I've had dozens of coaches in multiple sports -- some that went on to the pros -- and regardless of how tough they are, I've never seen a coach go out of his way to prove one of his athletes wrong -- especially one who is practically made of determination. On the contrary, he wouldn't be a very good coach or scout if that's how he approached the game and the players.

    I understand it is just a movie and that the conflict is exaggerated to create a more meaningful emotional response, but for me, the hyperbolic depiction ruins the movie because the entire time I'm watching it, I'm saying to myself, "That would never happen..."