The Final Season

The Final Season is a 2007 baseball film starring Sean Astin, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold, Powers Boothe, Brett Claywell, Michael Angarano, and Marshall Bell and directed by David Mickey Evans. Sports Action by ReelSports. The film wrapped production in 2006 in Shellsburg, Iowa, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was released in the United States and Canada on October 12, 2007, by Yari Film Group.

The true story of Kent Stock Sean Astin, who in the early 1990s, takes the job of a lifetime as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team, a school which had wonState titles and equated baseball with life. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coachs shoes all while dealing with the reality that this will be the teams final season due to an impending merger with a nearby school.The film depicts the Norway School District merging with the Madison School District. Norway actually was consolidated into the Benton Community School District. ........

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