The Sandlot is a 1993 American sports comedy film directed by David M. Evans about a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. Filming took place in Utah. The film was released with the title The Sandlot Kids in Australia and the United Kingdom. The film is told through the perspective of Scott "Scotty" Smalls , who is reminiscing about the summer of 1962. Smalls moves with his mother and stepfather Bill to a new neighborhood outside Los Angeles and has a hard time making new friends. One afternoon, he decides to follow a group of neighborhood boys, and he watches them play... an improvised game of baseball at a small field, which they call the “sandlot.” Smalls is reluctant to join their game because he fears he will be ridiculed based on his inexperience. Nevertheless, he chooses to play with them, but fails to catch a simple fly ball and properly throw the ball back to his infielders. All the other players, except for Benny Rodriguez , begin to laugh at Smalls for committing defensive miscues, prompting him to leave the sandlot in embarrassment.
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| Release date: | April 7, 1993 |
| Directed by: | David M. Evans |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 101 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dale De La Torre, William S. Gilmore |
| Editor: | Michael A. Stevenson |
| Music by: | David Newman |
| Cinematography: | Anthony B. Richmond |
| Screenplay by: | David M. Evans, Robert Gunter |
| Genre: | Comedy |