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Plot summary
New York City, 1932, in the Great Depression. Yankee Irving is ten and loves baseball, but other children pick on him because he is not much of an athlete. He finds a baseball that talks and names him Screwie. Yankee's father, Stanley, keeps Yankee Stadium clean, and when a man dressed as a security guard walks off with Babe Ruth's lucky bat, Darlin', Stanley is blamed and sent home until the bat is found. Yankee wants Darlin' back, both to clear his father and to keep the family from eviction. At the train station he takes the bat from the thief, and the train carries him away before he can step off. Darlin' can talk too, and she asks him to bring her to Chicago in time for the next game of the World Series.
Cast
- Ritchie Allenas Officer Bryant / Additional Voices (voice)
- Ralph Coppolaas Sandlot Kid #2 (voice)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Everyone's Hero (2006)
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- Co-director Christopher Reeve died of heart failure in October 2004, at which point Daniel St. Pierre and Colin Brady were hired as co-directors; they opted to remain as close as possible to Reeve's original vision, which was also overseen by Reeve's wife Dana.
- The film marked the final film for Dana Reeve before her death in March 2006, six months before its release, and it was dedicated to her and her husband Christopher Reeve, who co-directed it.
- The film began as a bedtime story written by Howard Jonas of IDT Entertainment. Years later Jonas decided to develop a feature film from the story and approached Christopher Reeve directly to direct it.
- The film was originally named Yankee Irving during production, and on March 22, 2006 IDT announced that it had been renamed Everyone's Hero.
- Everyone's Hero was a financial flop, earning $16.6 million on a $35 million budget after opening to mixed reviews from critics.
