Everyone’s Hero parents guide

Everyone’s Hero Parent Guide

Overall A

In this engaging animation, a young baseball fan named Yankee Irving (voiced by Jake T. Austin) and his talking ball Screwie (Rob Reiner), set out to find Babe Ruth's missing bat, known as Darlin' (Whoopi Goldberg), so the Great Bambino and his teammates can win the World Series.

Release date September 14, 2006

Violence B
Sexual Content A
Profanity A
Substance Use A-

Why is Everyone’s Hero rated G? The MPAA rated Everyone’s Hero G

Run Time: 88 minutes

Parent Movie Review

Following a few summer months of mediocre high-tech cartoons in theaters, Everyone’s Hero is debuting in the typically un-family friendly movie month of September. That’s unfortunate because this film is an unexpected shining light in the animation arena, which has been shifting from quality to quantity over the past couple of years.

Originally helmed by Christopher Reeve, whose untimely passing required other directors to take over the production, this little-movie-that-could features a young boy named Yankee Irving (Jake T. Austin) who is crazy about—you guessed it—the New York Yankees. It’s 1932, and the fabled team is playing in the World Series, so the young boy’s interest is at a record peak.

Even more exciting, his father (Mandy Patinkin) works at Yankee Stadium, and gives his son a chance to glimpse Babe Ruth’s treasured bat, affectionately named Darlin’ (and voiced by Whoopi Goldberg). But that peek turns into a big problem when the bat goes missing the next day. With both his father’s job and the Yankee’s chance of winning the series on the line, the young lad decides to take matters into his own hands and find the lost bat.

Thankfully, he has the good fortune of meeting a talking baseball named Screwie (Rob Reiner), who is more than willing to pitch him advice and cautious directions. He will need both after meeting up with Lefty Maginnis (William H. Macy), a pitcher for the rival Chicago Cubs who has been sent by his manager to keep the bat out of the Great Bambino’s hands.

What makes this rather contrived and predictable story so enchanting to watch is the beautiful visuals filling the screen. Depression-era New York and the surrounding countryside are rendered in a fashion and color pallet so compelling that the movie looks like something you should hang on a wall. Equally engaging is the action—especially a sequence involving characters jumping from one train to another.

This railway sequence is one of a few moments of mild-to-moderate peril contained within the film. Otherwise, subtle lessons about cooperation, loyalty, and loving parents add to the enjoyable animation style, making Everyone’s Hero a homerun.

Starring Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg. Running time: 88 minutes. Theatrical release September 14, 2006. Updated

Everyone’s Hero
Rating & Content Info

Why is Everyone’s Hero rated G? Everyone’s Hero is rated G by the MPAA

This animated (and wholly fictitious) story about a boy who does everything possible to return Babe Ruth’s bat and save his father’s job has only some mild peril involving a male adult who is trying to find the boy and take the bat for himself. A cigar smoking “bad guy” is seen in a couple of short scenes. Otherwise, no sexual content or profanities were noted in this movie.

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Everyone’s Hero Parents' Guide

When the police come to the family’s home with questions about the missing bat, Yankee does his best to explain what he saw when he was at the ballpark on the night in question, yet no one will listen to him. Do you think this is an accurate portrayal for the time period? Do you think a child has more ability to be heard today?

Home Video

The most recent home video release of Everyone’s Hero movie is March 20, 2007. Here are some details…

Everyone’s Hero steps up to the home entertainment plate and delivers a bases-loaded DVD release. Offering both Wide and Full Screen presentations (one on each side of the disc), the movie comes with an audio commentaries by co-directors Colin Brady and Dan St. Pierre, and writers Jeff Hand and Rob Kurtz. The disc also includes a tribute to Christopher and Dana Reeve, an inside look and making-of featurette, plus theatrical trailers. Audio tracks are available in English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), with subtitle in English and Spanish.

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This was the last movie Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana Reeve worked on. Another project Mr. Reeve was involved in was The Brooke Ellison Story. And, of course, this charitable star will always be known for his role in Superman.

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