Talk:Angels in the Outfield (1994 film)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 August 2015
Young foster children Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his friend J.P. (Milton Davis, Jr.) love to sneak into baseball games of the hopelessly dreadful California Angels.

Still in limited contact with his widower father, Roger asks when they will be a family again. His father replies sarcastically, "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant." Taking his father's words literally, Roger prays for God to help the Angels win. After he prays, a star, unseen by Roger, twinkles in the sky.

Then, in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays which Roger and J.P. attend, he sees a group of angels led by Al (Christopher Lloyd) helping the team. Although Roger can see the angels quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences.

Roger's unique ability to see which players are receiving help from angels leads the Angel's skeptical manager, George Knox (Danny Glover) (who dislikes Children) to keep Roger around as a good luck charm/consultant. Due to the much needed help, the Angels start to win games and make a surprising second-half surge to the top of their division. The Angels have made it to the Division championship, but Roger is forced to miss the first Championship game because of a court hearing, only to find out that his father permanently gave up custody of him instead and Roger starts to cry, Meanwhile The Angels lose the first game and J.P. is crying too and also J.P. accidentally reveals to antagonistic sports broadcaster Ranch Wilder (Jay O. Sanders) that Roger has the ability to see angels, and that Knox has been winning through the advice Roger's given him, Then later their caretaker Maggie Nelson (Brenda Fricker) and Roger return home at the same time Knox & J.P. return home, Maggie tells Knox what happened, then Knox tells Roger that when he was Roger's age that he and his brothers never had the opportunity to be with their father, because their father couldn't take care of himself and also if Roger continues to let people down, like Knox, Roger would dislike children when he becomes an adult.

Meanwhile Ranch, hoping to destroy Knox informs the press of what J.P. told him and tells manager Hank Murphy (Ben Johnson) threatens to fire Knox for this seemingly absurd notion that angels are helping the team. Roger comes clean about his special ability and at a press conference they and the entire Angels team defend Knox in front of the press. Moved by their faith, Murphy rehires Knox to be the manager of the team and play for the championship.

On the championship game none of the Angels show up to help the team. Later on Al explains that championships must be played without help from the Angels and that he was just checking Mel Clark (Tony Danza) who will be one of them soon (he's been a smoker for years and only has six months left to live). Throughout the game Clark has been in, but is getting tired after 159 pitches. When Coach Knox goes in, everyone thinks he's going in to take him out, but instead, Knox gives Clark some motivation, with help from Roger, the Angels team, and finally, the entire stadium audience as well as Murphy and the broadcasters (minus Ranch).

The Angels ultimately win the final game of the regular season, Knox tells Clark that they really didn't need the Angels' help and that Clark did it on his own, Wilder gets fired by Murphy over Wilder's insults about the Angels and Knox over the radio, When Knox returns Roger & J.P. home, Maggie tells Roger that he must depart Maggie to live in a new home, J.P. is crying and gets nervous about losing his best friend and runs back to his room and Maggie goes after him, Knox then tells Roger that he called the Family Court and asked them if he would become Roger's new dad and adopt him and they agreed and Roger says he would only go if J.P. went with them, then J.P. returns still crying and Knox then says that J.P. will be living with them too and that J.P. will be Roger's new brother, J.P. stops crying and runs over to his new daddy and brother and they're all hugging, J.P. wants Maggie to join them too, but Maggie has to stay behind and hopefully get new angels living with her too, Then J.P. sees Al and Al goes to play Baseball with other Angels in Heaven.

67.82.173.186 (talk) 12:19, 15 August 2015 (UTC)


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I've just added a hatnote to the original movie pointing to this one. Please add a corresponding one here, such as:

Adjust the wording as you see fit. Thanks. --142.112.159.101 (talk) 09:07, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 December 2023
2601:240:4D81:CDE0:7C09:EA80:A976:92C7 (talk) 22:26, 17 December 2023 (UTC)