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The Sandlot: Heading Home
Directed byWilliam Dear
Written byAllie Dvorin
Keith Mitchell
Produced byJon Kuyper
Vicki Sotheran
StarringLuke Perry
Danny Nucci
Sarah Deakins
Sonja Bennett
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
May 1, 2007
Running time
96 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Sandlot: Heading Home is the second direct-to-video sequel to the 1993 theatrical film The Sandlot and the first direct-to-video sequel The Sandlot 2. It was released straight to DVD on May 1, 2007. The film stars Luke Perry, Danny Nucci, and Sarah Deakins.

Plot

Successful, arrogant baseball superstar Tommy "Santa" Santorelli is knocked unconscious by a wild pitch, taking him back in time to 1976. He wakes up to all of his childhood friends from the Sandlot greeting him. He asks who jacked his blackberry and why is everyone calling him kid. After seeing his reflection in the sheriff's badge he realizes he is not in the year 2007, but in the year 1976. He faints. He wakes to his mother who died of cancer telling him everything is all right. He is convinced he is dreaming until he wakes up and his mother is making pancakes. He tells her that he is forty one years old, lives in Beverly Hills, has a "smoking hot" girlfriend who has her own reality show, and he does not eat pancakes but protein shakes. He then tells her he thinks he is dead. His mom calls the doctor and he gets mad at the doctor after trying to explain what TiVo is and calls the doctor a quack. They go back home and she shows him some family photo albums. He tells his mom about his cousin who will work at Home Depot after his band breaks up in the nineties. She is confused and asks him what Home Depot is when his friends, Two-ton, Wings, D.P. and Wok ask him to join their baseball team. He says no, but his mother insists he should at least go ahead and play. He meets Benny Rodriguez, the manager of his baseball team, the Dodgers, and asks him how they were transported back in time, but Benny is younger and has no idea what he is talking about. After seeing Tommy hit every single hit over the fence, and after Q calculates he has a batting average of 1,000, they decide to sneak into the movie to ask Tommy to be on their team. He says no until he finds out he gets to play E.J., the town bully, in the tournament. He joins the team. However, E.J's team - the Needman Realtors - ask Tommy to join their team. Tommy has a flashback to catching an over-the-fence hit while playing for their team. He knows that this is what started his career as a baseball player, so this is his destiny. He tells this to Ryan, the boy who hasn't talked for four years, and Ryan says "Maybe you are the one who shouldn't talk for a while." Ryan storms off on his bike. Tommy catches up and Ryan explains "You taught our team how to play and work together---to have love of the game. I guess I thought we taught you something too." Tommy is confused by this, he asks "What did you teach me?" "Friendship, DUMMY" Ryan says before he leaves. At the final game between the Sandlot boys and the Needman Realtors, Tommy realizes he should play with his friends. He ends up catching an over the fence hit for the Sandlot boys. The Sandlot is saved and Tommy's team wins. He gives the winning ball to Ryan and rushes home to see how his mother suffering with cancer is feeling. She is very sick. Ryan yells to Tommy. He says "Tommy you deserve this" throwing the winning ball up to Tommy for him to catch but it knocks him out like it did before. He wakes up in the hospital room as his older self to find he is married to Judy, the woman he left to play for the Yankees,but soon Judy tells Tommy that he didn't ever play for the Yankees and stayed on the Dodgers his entire career,he has two kids, Heather and Oliver, and all of his adult, Sandlot friends. He realizes that he relived his childhood days but this time choosing friendship over glory and ultimately earning both.

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