John Shea (12/87 Stealing Home)
Excerpt from Variety 12/31/87: John Shea | Stealing Home
Review: ‘Stealing Home’
December 31, 1987 | 11:00PM PT
For all the sadness and loss in Stealing Home, the story of how a privileged boy’s love for playing baseball is gone with the sudden death of his father, the film remains too remote emotionally to elicit more than a sigh of relief at its conclusion.
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For Billy, baseball takes priority. It’s something he breathes for and something he cherishes sharing with his equally fanatical baseball-loving dad (John Shea).
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Excerpt from Philly.com 5/25/88: John Shea
Thank Goodness It's Summer Sequels, Comedies & Shoot-'em-ups Things Are Warming Up At The Movies
By BEN YAGODA, Daily News Movie Critic Posted: May 25, 1988
STEALING HOME. This movie about a bunch of young people coming of age was shot in Philadelphia, and it'll have its world premiere here. The film stars Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Silverman and John Shea and was co-written and co-directed by Chestnut Hill native Steve Kampmann.
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Excerpt from Deseret News 8/26/88: John Shea
Stealing Home
By Chris Hicks Reviewed 08/26/1988
Cast: Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis, John Shea.
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Harmon narrates the proceedings as Billy Wyatt, whom we first meet as a 30ish pro ball player. An immediate flashback takes us to the recent past where we see Wyatt bumming on skid row, living with a cocktail waitress. He gets a phone call from his mother (Blair Brown) that his childhood best friend Katie (Foster) has committed suicide and left a will putting Billy in charge of her cremated ashes. As Billy reluctantly returns home to fulfill his responsibility he daydreams and we flash back (within the flashback) to his baseball-obsessed youth, and his relationship with Katie, and to a lesser degree with his Dad (John Shea).
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Excerpt from Sun Sentinel 8/26/88: John Shea
Appealing `Stealing Home` A Warm Slice-of-life Saga
August 26, 1988|By JACK ZINK, Entertainment Writer
Blair Brown gives an attractive performance as Billy`s mother, a bright young woman whose spirit is dampened by the death of her husband. That`s John Shea, whose brisk performance as the proud pop gives zest to some early scenes.
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Excerpt from Chicago Tribune 8/26/88: John Shea
`Stealing Home` Can`t Make It To 1st Base
August 26, 1988|By Dave Kehr, Movie critic.
Later, the film moves into intermediate flashback and Billy becomes 16-year-old William McNamara, who comes equipped with a painfully horny best friend (Jonathan Silverman), a glamorous mother (Blair Brown), an affectionate, baseball-loving father (John Shea) and a sweet-faced girl down the street (not billed in the press material) who obligingly relieves him of his virginity.
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