{"id":3498,"date":"2008-06-18T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2015-05-20T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:03:42","slug":"the-perfect-game-hits-theaters-on-august-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2008\/06\/the-perfect-game-hits-theaters-on-august-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Game hits theaters on August 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emilie de Ravin plays a reluctant reporter in the forthcoming movie from Lionsgate Entertainment entitled &#8220;The Perfect Game&#8221; which hits theaters on August 8, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is based on a true story. <\/p>\n<p>Imdb.com summary: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1957 a rag-tag, shoeless, poor group of kids from Monterrey, Mexico shocked the world by winning 13 games in a row and the Little League World Series in the only perfect game ever pitched in the Championship. These kids, led by their priest and a down-and-out former major leaguer embark on a journey through the southern US and up into Williamsport, PA for the Championship game. They encountered many adversities including nearly being deported and the bigotry that wouldn&#8217;t allow them into certain restaurants or travel on certain buses. They never lost their faith and eventually captured the hearts of both nations. This is a heart-warming inspirational story in the tradition of &#8220;Rudy&#8221;, &#8220;Hoosiers&#8221;, &#8220;Coach Carter&#8221; or &#8220;Friday Night Lights&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An article about the movie has been published on the Major League Baseball website: <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article_entertainment.jsp?ymd=20080717&#038;content_id=3144186&#038;vkey=entertainment&#038;fext=.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Little Leaguers make waves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emilie de Ravin plays a reluctant reporter in the forthcoming movie from Lionsgate Entertainment entitled &#8220;The Perfect Game&#8221; which hits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,3],"tags":[480,1507],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emilie-de-ravin","category-leading","tag-emilie-de-ravin","tag-the-perfect-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29888,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/29888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}