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What Is The Sandlot?
There is a great movie that people are going crazy about!! WHAT?!? You haven’t seen it?, not sure if you’ll like it? What are you talking about, the movie is amazing and recommended by many people, and thats why its gonna be proven to you!

The SandLot ( Directed by David Evans )is a great movie that has lots of imagination and originality, it's definitely surprising at first but it definitely more entertaining when you start to understand the concept

The Sandlot is about a kid named Scotty Smalls who can't seem to make any friends in the new area that he’s in. Scotty Finds the Sandlot and watches all the kids play Baseball when the ball is thrown far from the diamond the other kids ask him to get them the ball but scotty hears a terrifying dog on the side so he quickly grabs it and runs away from the fence. Then Scotty tries to throw the ball to the other kids but can't and is made fun of. Alot later in the movie the kids become friends and are faced head to head against “ The Beast” …show more content…
Another reason why it's so funny is because the story of “The Beast” very much over exaggerated by the kids who tell the story. They tell the story by saying the beast kills anything in it’s path and that any that goes over the fence never EVER comes back out, its especially funny when they tell the story and there is a scene showed of the owner of the beast and how every criminal gets killed and that the Beast was sentenced to “jail” inside a fence
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