Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

One of my all time favorites.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Athletes often face a rough mid-life period as their skills diminish and their careers wind down, since their sport so defines who and what they are. This topic has great potential for drama and poignancy, yet few good films have been made on the subject. This movie has a beautifully sad central love story, with aging minor league ballplayer Billy Wyatt (Mark Harmon) remembering the (then) older woman who inspired him so many years before (Jodie Foster), and trying to come to terms with the route his career and life have taken. So, he returns to his hometown, connects with his high school best friend (Harold Ramis) and starts looking into his past for answers, while much of the film plays out in flashback, recounting his bittersweet teen years, when everything was ahead of him but his own goals and motivations were elusive. What makes the film watchable is the complexity of the central relationship, as the mature Billy realizes that the most important woman in his life arrived when he was too young to appreciate her. The movie is quite beautiful to look at with its clean-scrubbed view of small town life and high school sports, and the characters are engaging to follow. This is not a great movie by any means. Like Billy Wyatt himself, this one just misses hitting the major leagues, but it IS enjoyable in a low key way, and the lack of interesting movies on this potentially interesting subject makes it a bit special.

On behalf of youth, there have been some of the worst scarecrows of film history, but also, from time to time (¿why is always good once in a while?) Is a story that blanket the soul and brings us back the romance, sometimes we lost forever. And it's so beautiful dream with open eyes! And so great was that first love that made us believe that in this world was perfect! There is, perhaps, other moments that are remembered with more gratitude, as experienced with tenderness and passion in our adolescence. "Stealing Home" is one of those movies. The story is about a boy (Billy Wyatt) baseball player, in crisis after the death of his father who one day finds out that Kathy Chandler, his sweet first love, killed himself and hopes that he is the man take charge of her ashes. Then the memories begin. With each haunting space, the past returns unstoppable, and Billy is remembered as a ten year old boy fascinated by the beautiful Kathy sixteen. Travel by car, the first installment, the horse diver, swimming pool... The enormity of the simple, tenderness and charm of every gesture, every touch, every word. The forever stamp each encounter... and death that is interwoven to tell her it was all an illusion and that nothing is to touch it again. Kathy was a young girl who wanted to own your life every minute, every second. He wanted to chart a path of freedom in a world where constraints arising everywhere. But you can say I tried to exhaust his strength... to vanish in a haze of memory. Jodie Foster gives an adult character,charming and credible. In full bloom of adolescence, showing mature, sensitive, beautiful, and lets us feel that great actress who has always been throughout his career.Beautiful songs and a nice atmosphere reminiscent of famous titles as "Summer of 42" or "The Man in the Moon", make this an enjoyable film worth seeing and remembering.

***/***** I remember watching this movie circa 1990 when I was about 12. Back then I thought this movie was great, so I rented it to see how my frame-of-reference would match up. However, I didn't like it near as much, but it is still a pretty decent movie for what it is. The "tell you how to feel" score is way too much, and if ever a film had too much sentimentality to it, this is that film. Nonetheless, there is something to be said of some of the themes and the way the coming-of-age story is executed. Mark Harmon stars as Billy Wyatt, a washed-up minor league baseball player who receives news that his childhood babysitter and friend Katie, has committed suicide. What follows is his journey home, complete with reflections on his past and his duty of respectively laying her ashes to rest. A lot of the story is in flashbacks, and we see how Billy has come to be--and what his relationship was like with Katie and others. One thing that bothered me, though, is that we were shown this background and story on Foster's character Katie, but we're never told why she killed herself? Overall, a mediocre 100 minutes of entertainment.

You can see my posts already in the message board for this movie. This is in my top 3 of all time. Here are just some of the reasons.1. I find the story compels me to continue watching. Seeing the relationship between Billy and Katie develop through flashbacks drew me in.2. The tragedy of Katie having to leave her ashes to someone she hasn't seen in so long makes me grieve a bit for her detachment from her life.3. The movie felt very nostalgic and had a great soundtrack.4. I liked the way the title of the movie plays throughout the story. I dislike it when I can't figure out why a movie has the title it does.