Arizona is one of the best places that any director can shoot their movie. Proof of this is the number of hit movies that have sold record breaking copies for equally out-of-the-world revenue. We have watched many stars rise from humble beginnings to worldwide celebrities. Many movies have come top in ratings from this state, and one of these is Major League. It is written and directed by David S. Ward and stars Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, and Wesley Snipes among others.
Major League is about a fictitious baseball team that has to lose its matches in order for the owner to relocate to the warmer climate of Miami. The movie is partly filmed in Arizona in one of the training sessions and leaves the audience asking for more.
The owner Rachel inherits the club from her deceased husband, and the pursuit of her selfish interests is the main drive behind the whole movie. First she must get low sales of tickets so that it triggers a change in the lease agreement, shortening the term or instantly ending the contract. She instructs the new general manager, Charlie, to hire the worst performing players from teams she had identified, hoping for disastrous results. The team includes both young players from little celebrated local teams and old veteran players who people considered out of shape. All of these players had their strong areas but with imperfections or injuries.
The team's performance continues to improve and this worries Rachel. She decides to withdraw some luxuries such as replacing the use of chartered flights for away matches with a bus but does not succeed in bringing down the morale of the players. Charlie then reveals to Brown, a hired old sales man, of Rachel's plan to find bad players who would lose so as to void the lease agreement. This is in turn conveyed to the players who swear to work even harder as a way of frustrating Rachel since they did not have anything to lose anyway. Brown even entices them with a piece of cloth from Rachel's collection of model dresses from back in her youth.
The team plays well all the season and reaches the brink of winning the title. In the background, the team has personal issues with one another. These have mostly to do with ladies, some sleeping with their colleagues and others trying to win back their love after seeing them with other partners. Finally, Jake is able to win back Lynn and at the same time the team clinches the title.
Rachel is disappointed at the team winning as she cannot relocate to warmer Miami because the lease still holds. The icing of this movie is when it is revealed that all the meanness of Rachel was due to the fact that the club did not have the funds for good players and other luxuries. In the end, it was a win for her and the team in general.
The movie boasts of today's Hollywood stars like Wesley Snipes, Charlie Sheen of the comedy series "Two and a Half Men" and Dennis Haysbert of the popular television series 24.
