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* CaliforniaDoubling: Oakland Coliseum stands in for then-Anaheim Stadium. At the time, Anaheim Stadium was a complete closed-off stadium due to upper deck seating in the outfield, so there would've been no way for the kids to peep into the game from the outside. The Angels' stadium is also located in a business area, while the Coliseum is in more of a residential location, where it would make sense that Roger could see the stadium from his house.house and peek inside the stadium from a tree.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Pitcher Whitt Bass, full stop. The announcers even run down several crazy things they've seen him do during the season. This also makes him the butt of some jokes by the team; when Bass thinks the opening words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" refer to a guy named Jose, they don't dissuade him.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Pitcher Whitt Bass, full stop. The announcers even run down several crazy things they've seen him do during the season. This also makes him the butt of some jokes by the team; when Bass thinks the opening words of Latino players trick him into thinking "The Star-Spangled Banner" refer to is about a guy named Jose, they don't dissuade him.Jose.
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* [[SecretlyDying: spoiler: Mel Clark. Even he doesn't know he is.]]
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* MotivationalLie: When Knox goes out to give Clark a pep talk at the end of the game, Clark says he doesn't have anything left. Although he knows they won't show up, Roger begins to make the angel motion and the rest of the dugout and the stadium follows suit. Knox re-instills confidence in Clark by telling him that's the signal that Clark has an angel with him.
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* MotivationalLie: When Knox goes out to give Clark a pep talk at the end of the climactic game, a clearly fatigued Clark says he doesn't have anything left. Although he knows they won't show up, Roger begins to make the angel motion and the rest of the dugout and the stadium follows suit. Knox re-instills confidence in Clark by telling him that's the signal that Clark has an angel with him.
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* Ironic Echo: "Less is more!"
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* Ironic Echo: IronicEcho: "Less is more!"
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Oakland Coliseum stands in for then-Anaheim Stadium. At the time, Anaheim Stadium was a complete closed-off stadium due to upper deck seating in the outfield, so there would've been no way for the kids to peep into the game from the outside (never mind getting past the parking stations just to get into the lot). outside. The Angels' stadium is also located in a business area, while the Coliseum is in more of a residential location, where it would make sense that Roger could see the stadium from his house.house.
* CassandraTruth: First Roger, then Knox when trying to convince people about the angels; it nearly costs Knox his job.
* CatchPhrase: JP's "It could happen!"
* CassandraTruth: First Roger, then Knox when trying to convince people about the angels; it nearly costs Knox his job.
* CatchPhrase: JP's "It could happen!"
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* GameOfNerds: in the 1994 version, Rodger has a whole ''team'' full. Understanable since they're all ten years old or younger.
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* GameOfNerds: in the 1994 version, Rodger Roger has a whole ''team'' full. Understanable since they're all ten years old or younger.younger.
* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Roger, JP, and Knox do this to David every time they need to shoo him away and talk about the angels.
-->'''Knox''': Buy them Angels jackets!
-->'''David''': It's ninety degrees out here!
-->'''Knox''': Get your butt up there now!
* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Roger, JP, and Knox do this to David every time they need to shoo him away and talk about the angels.
-->'''Knox''': Buy them Angels jackets!
-->'''David''': It's ninety degrees out here!
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** The players also touch a pole in the clubhouse after a game as a good-luck tradition. Hemmerling mentions that after 15 straight losses, they should find something else to rub; resident cuckoolander Bass makes a good point by remarking that they should probably touch the pole ''before'' the game.
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* MissingMom: We learn this in ''the second line of the movie''.
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* MustHaveNicotine: Mel Clark, who's even smoking in the clubhouse hot tub. [[spoiler: Unknowingly, Mel has lung cancer and only has months to live]].
* MotivationalLie: When Knox goes out to give Clark a pep talk at the end of the game, Clark says he doesn't have anything left. Although he knows they won't show up, Roger begins to make the angel motion and the rest of the dugout and the stadium follows suit. Knox re-instills confidence in Clark by telling him that's the signal that Clark has an angel with him.
* MustHaveNicotine: Mel Clark, who's even smoking in the clubhouse hot tub. [[spoiler: Unknowingly, Mel has lung cancer and only has months to live]].
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* [[SecretlyDying: spoiler: Mel Clark. Even he doesn't know he is.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I came to check up on Mel. He's coming up soon. Going to be one of us."]]
* WideEyedIdealist: JP
* WideEyedIdealist: JP
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* CloudCuckoolander: Pitcher Whitt Bass, full stop. Ranch Wilder even runs down several crazy things they've seen him do during the season.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Pitcher Whitt Bass, full stop. Ranch Wilder even runs down several crazy things they've seen him do during the season.
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* Magic8Ball: Whitt Bass consults one to see if he'll win his start; the best it will give him is "Maybe" but he'll take it.
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* GoodLuckCharm: Knox doesn't believe in the angels, but the team is winning when Roger and JP are there, so he has it arranged so they'll be at every home game to keep the winning ways going.
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* {{Expy}}: Owner Hank Murphy is one for famed country singer Gene Autry, who was the long-time owner of the Angels.
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* {{Expy}}: Owner Hank Murphy is one for famed country singer Gene Autry, who was the long-time owner of the Angels. It's pretty much limited to Murphy's ten-gallon hat and on-the-ranch sayings.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Oakland Coliseum stands in for then-Anaheim Stadium. At the time, Anaheim Stadium was a complete closed-off stadium due to upper deck seating four for outfield seats, so there would've been no way for the kids to peep into the game from the outside. The Angels' stadium is also located in a business area, while the Coliseum is in more of a residential location, where it would make sense that Roger could see the stadium from his house.
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* BilledAboveTheTitle: During the opening credits, Danny Glover gets his name in before ''the production company''.
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* {{Expy}}: Owner Hank Murphy is one for famed country singer Gene Autry, who was the long-time owner of the Angels.
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-> ''Al the Boss Angel. Angel, from the 1994 Remake''
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The 1994 Disney remake stars JosephGordonLevitt and ChristopherLloyd and is about a boy praying that the Angels will win the pennant, mistakenly believing that if they do, he will reunite with his DisappearedDad. Roger asks said dad when they will be a family again. His father replies sarcastically, "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant." Taking his father's words to heart, Roger prays for God to help the Angels win. After he prays, a star, unseen by Roger, twinkles in the sky.
Then, in a game which Roger and JP are attending, Roger sees a group of angels led by Al helping the team. Although Roger can see the angels quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences. Roger's unique ability to see which players are receiving help from angels leads the Angel's skeptical manager, George Knox to keep Roger around as a good luck charm/consultant. Due to the much needed help, the Angels start to win games and make a surprising second-half surge to the top of their division. Unfortunately, Roger's father permanently gives up custody of his son instead.
On the championship game none of the angels show up to help the team. Later on Al explains that championships must be played without angelic aid, and that he was just checking Mel Clark who will be one of them soon (he has been a smoker for years and only has six months left to live). Throughout the game Clark has been in, but is getting tired after 159 pitches. When Coach Knox goes in, everyone thinks he is going in to take him out, but instead, Knox gives Clark some motivation, with help from Roger, the Angels team, and finally, the entire stadium audience as well as Murphy and the broadcasters (minus Ranch).
Then, in a game which Roger and JP are attending, Roger sees a group of angels led by Al helping the team. Although Roger can see the angels quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences. Roger's unique ability to see which players are receiving help from angels leads the Angel's skeptical manager, George Knox to keep Roger around as a good luck charm/consultant. Due to the much needed help, the Angels start to win games and make a surprising second-half surge to the top of their division. Unfortunately, Roger's father permanently gives up custody of his son instead.
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The 1994 Disney remake stars JosephGordonLevitt and ChristopherLloyd and is about a boy praying that the Angels will win the pennant, mistakenly believing that if they do, he will reunite with his DisappearedDad. Roger (Roger asks said dad when they will be a family again. His father replies sarcastically, "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant." Taking his father's words to heart, Roger prays for God to help the Angels win. ) After he prays, a star, unseen by Roger, twinkles in the sky.
sky. Then, in a game which Roger and JP are attending, Roger sees a group of angels led by Al helping the team. Although Roger can see the angels quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences. Roger's unique ability to see which players are receiving help from angels leads the Angel's skeptical manager, George Knox to keep Roger around as a good luck charm/consultant. Due to the much needed help, the Angels start to win games and make a surprising second-half surge to the top of their division. Unfortunately, Roger's father permanently gives up custody of his son instead.
On the championship game none of the angels show up to help the team. Later on Al explains that championships must be played without angelic aid, and that he was just checking MelClark Clark, who will be one of them soon (he has been a smoker for years and only has six months left to live). Throughout the game Clark has been in, but is getting tired after 159 pitches. When Coach Knox goes in, everyone thinks he is going in to take him out, but instead, Knox gives Clark some motivation, with help from Roger, the Angels team, and finally, the entire stadium audience as well as Murphy and the broadcasters (minus Ranch).
On the championship game none of the angels show up to help the team. Later on Al explains that championships must be played without angelic aid, and that he was just checking Mel
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** Ranch Wilder might take the cake. It's heavily implied that he slid spikes up into George Knox's knee, causing the injury that ended his career. Not only does he all but gloat to him about it on the air (prompting a well deserved punch to the face,) but he takes every opportunity to smear Knox to the Angels faithful, and manipulates the naive and distraught JP into spilling the beans on the assistance from on high, resulting very nearly in Knox's termination as manager. This windbag deserves every inch of what he gets at the end of the movie- FIRED.
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* HeartwarmingOrphanTheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A great one in the 1994 film when the Angels lose yet another game:
--> '''George Knox''': One more loss! One more loss which could've been a win! And you call yourselves ''professionals''. I have never, ever seen a worse group of twenty-five players! You don't think as a team, you don't play as a team, you don't even ''LOSE'' as a team! You've all got your heads so far up your ''butts'', you can't even see the light of day! One more loss and I'll... I'll do this... (throws a chair at a rack of bats) to each and every one of you! (...) I want you ''here'' in uniform at nine tomorrow! We're going back to work on ''fundamentals''!
--> '''George Knox''': One more loss! One more loss which could've been a win! And you call yourselves ''professionals''. I have never, ever seen a worse group of twenty-five players! You don't think as a team, you don't play as a team, you don't even ''LOSE'' as a team! You've all got your heads so far up your ''butts'', you can't even see the light of day! One more loss and I'll... I'll do this... (throws a chair at a rack of bats) to each and every one of you! (...) I want you ''here'' in uniform at nine tomorrow! We're going back to work on ''fundamentals''!
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--> '''Ranch''': You leave Cincinnati after ten years of winning ball clubs - although the really big one always seemed to be just out of reach - and you come out here to manage our Angels. Now, expectations were high that you could turn this team around. But that just doesn't seem to be happening.
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--> '''Ranch''': '''Ranch Wilder''': You leave Cincinnati after ten years of winning ball clubs - although the really big one always seemed to be just out of reach - and you come out here to manage our Angels. Now, expectations were high that you could turn this team around. But that just doesn't seem to be happening.
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--> '''Ranch''': You leave Cincinnati after ten years of winning ball clubs - although the really big one always seemed to be just out of reach - and you come out here to manage our Angels. Now, expectations were high that you could turn this team around. But that just doesn't seem to be happening.
--> '''George Knox''': Season's only half-over, Ranch.
--> '''Ranch Wilder''': And your club's in last place.
--> '''George Knox''': You oughta know how one incident can change the course of events.
--> '''Ranch Wilder''': Well, you know, you play the game. You take your chances. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong ''place'' at the wrong ''time''.
--> '''George Knox''': Yeah, you're an ''expert'' at that.
--> '''Ranch Wilder''': I ''could'' say the same about ''you''.
--> '''George Knox''': Well, actions speak louder than words.
--> '''Ranch''': You leave Cincinnati after ten years of winning ball clubs - although the really big one always seemed to be just out of reach - and you come out here to manage our Angels. Now, expectations were high that you could turn this team around. But that just doesn't seem to be happening.
--> '''George Knox''': Season's only half-over, Ranch.
--> '''Ranch Wilder''': And your club's in last place.
--> '''George Knox''': You oughta know how one incident can change the course of events.
--> '''Ranch Wilder''': Well, you know, you play the game. You take your chances. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong ''place'' at the wrong ''time''.
--> '''George Knox''': Yeah, you're an ''expert'' at that.
--> '''Ranch Wilder''': I ''could'' say the same about ''you''.
--> '''George Knox''': Well, actions speak louder than words.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: In the Disney movie, the team owner is outraged with Knox's "hogwash" story about real angels helping the team, which is of course how anyone would respond--except that the entire country has been watching miracles occur on the field hundreds of times over the course of the season. Now, granted, ''angels'' are still a far-fetched explanation, but is it all ''that'' crazy at this point?
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-> "Even though you can't see us, we're always watching."
-> ''Al the Boss Angel. from the 1994 Remake''
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''Angels in the Outfield'' is a film released in 1951 and remade in 1994.
The 1951 film is about Pittsburgh Pirates manager Duffy [=McGovern=] being visited by invisible angels who will give his team miracles, as long as he stops swearing and controls his violent temper. A girl from the local Catholic orphanage can see the angels, and a woman reporter who's been covering the Pirates prints the story. [=McGovern's=] bete noir is Fred Bayles, a snarky sportscaster who wants to get something on him. When the manager is beaned by a fastball he lets slip about "talking to angels", and a sanity hearing ensues. Meanwhile, the angels let Mc_Govern know that his veteran pitcher Saul Hellman is about to be "signed up" in Heaven, and Mc_Govern resolves to give Hellman one more turn on the mound. Naturally, the Pirates eventually take the NL pennant, and the reporter and [=McGovern=] ultimately get together and adopt the little girl.
The 1994 Disney remake stars JosephGordonLevitt and ChristopherLloyd and is about a boy praying that the Angels will win the pennant, mistakenly believing that if they do, he will reunite with his DisappearedDad. Roger asks said dad when they will be a family again. His father replies sarcastically, "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant." Taking his father's words to heart, Roger prays for God to help the Angels win. After he prays, a star, unseen by Roger, twinkles in the sky.
Then, in a game which Roger and JP are attending, Roger sees a group of angels led by Al helping the team. Although Roger can see the angels quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences. Roger's unique ability to see which players are receiving help from angels leads the Angel's skeptical manager, George Knox to keep Roger around as a good luck charm/consultant. Due to the much needed help, the Angels start to win games and make a surprising second-half surge to the top of their division. Unfortunately, Roger's father permanently gives up custody of his son instead.
On the championship game none of the angels show up to help the team. Later on Al explains that championships must be played without angelic aid, and that he was just checking Mel Clark who will be one of them soon (he has been a smoker for years and only has six months left to live). Throughout the game Clark has been in, but is getting tired after 159 pitches. When Coach Knox goes in, everyone thinks he is going in to take him out, but instead, Knox gives Clark some motivation, with help from Roger, the Angels team, and finally, the entire stadium audience as well as Murphy and the broadcasters (minus Ranch).
The Angels ultimately win the final game of the regular season without the help of the angels and clinch the division pennant over the rival Chicago White Sox. Murphy fires Wilder due to his snide remarks over the Angels. George, having grown close to Roger throughout the movie, adopts him and his surrogate brother J.P., granting Roger his wish after all.
Standard kids movie film but a feel good one at that which ultimately is about the power of faith wrapped around a sports story. The 1994 version was followed by two [[MadeForTVMovie Made For TV sequels]] , 1997's ''Angels in the Endzone'' (Same thing with ''Outfield'' only with football) and 2000's ''Angels in the Infield'' which replaced Christopher Lloyd with David Alan Grier as the head angel.
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* DaddyDidntShow: Roger's dad breaks his heart when, after the Angels are well on their way to winning the pennant (which he sarcastically said would be when they could be a family again), he gives up custody of Roger to the state.
* DownToTheLastPlay: Both versions.
* GameOfNerds: in the 1994 version, Rodger has a whole ''team'' full. Understanable since they're all ten years old or younger.
* GuardianAngel: Al, and it's implied the unnamed angel who talks to Mc_Govern is his guardian angel.
* HappilyAdopted
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Seems to be a prerequisite for seeing angels.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lots of them in the Disney version, Knox being an obvious example.
* {{Jerkass}}: [=McGovern=] starts out as one, and Bayles isn't much better.
* MagicFeather: In the original, the angels tell [=McGovern=] they're withdrawing their aid before the final game, since he lost his temper during a sanity hearing. But they say, "You've been on your own a lot of times this season without knowing it." In the remake, the whole crowd at an Angels baseball game makes wing flapping gestures to help their pitcher make a strikeout, without the divine intervention they've been relying on these past few months.
** Since everyone in the stadium was helping him it can also be considered a CombinedEnergyAttack.
* OrphanageOfLove: In the original film, St. Gabriel's Home for Orphan Girls is pretty much this. And it's run by pleasant, practical-minded HollywoodNuns.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The angels fit the standard good-guys-with-wings image, as befits a feel-good kids' movie. They are repelled by foul language, being pure and ethical in all respects ... except, it seems, for cheating at sports, which is perfectly okay if they're the ones doing it. In the original, they work mostly by influencing the players' and manager's intuition.
** In all fairness, the new version just had them, lending a hand, so to speak.
* PluckyComicRelief: Al and JP
* PutMeInCoach: In both versions, Hellman in the original and Clark in the remake -- only there's a minor subversion. It was the manager's idea.
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* SandInMyEyes: PlayedForLaughs in the remake. One of the ball players pokes fun at Coach Knox for shedding a tear during the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" before a game, but Knox shrugs it off as sunscreen getting in his eye.
* SaveOurTeam: From being the one that ''sucks'' the most!
* {{Sequel}}: ''Angels in the Endzone'' and ''Angels in the Infield''
* SpiritualSports
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''Angels in the Outfield'' is a film released in 1951 and remade in 1994.
The 1951 film is about Pittsburgh Pirates manager Duffy [=McGovern=] being visited by invisible angels who will give his team miracles, as long as he stops swearing and controls his violent temper. A girl from the local Catholic orphanage can see the angels, and a woman reporter who's been covering the Pirates prints the story. [=McGovern's=] bete noir is Fred Bayles, a snarky sportscaster who wants to get something on him. When the manager is beaned by a fastball he lets slip about "talking to angels", and a sanity hearing ensues. Meanwhile, the angels let Mc_Govern know that his veteran pitcher Saul Hellman is about to be "signed up" in Heaven, and Mc_Govern resolves to give Hellman one more turn on the mound. Naturally, the Pirates eventually take the NL pennant, and the reporter and [=McGovern=] ultimately get together and adopt the little girl.
The 1994 Disney remake stars JosephGordonLevitt and ChristopherLloyd and is about a boy praying that the Angels will win the pennant, mistakenly believing that if they do, he will reunite with his DisappearedDad. Roger asks said dad when they will be a family again. His father replies sarcastically, "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant." Taking his father's words to heart, Roger prays for God to help the Angels win. After he prays, a star, unseen by Roger, twinkles in the sky.
Then, in a game which Roger and JP are attending, Roger sees a group of angels led by Al helping the team. Although Roger can see the angels quite clearly, everyone else can only explain the seemingly impossible acts as freak occurrences. Roger's unique ability to see which players are receiving help from angels leads the Angel's skeptical manager, George Knox to keep Roger around as a good luck charm/consultant. Due to the much needed help, the Angels start to win games and make a surprising second-half surge to the top of their division. Unfortunately, Roger's father permanently gives up custody of his son instead.
On the championship game none of the angels show up to help the team. Later on Al explains that championships must be played without angelic aid, and that he was just checking Mel Clark who will be one of them soon (he has been a smoker for years and only has six months left to live). Throughout the game Clark has been in, but is getting tired after 159 pitches. When Coach Knox goes in, everyone thinks he is going in to take him out, but instead, Knox gives Clark some motivation, with help from Roger, the Angels team, and finally, the entire stadium audience as well as Murphy and the broadcasters (minus Ranch).
The Angels ultimately win the final game of the regular season without the help of the angels and clinch the division pennant over the rival Chicago White Sox. Murphy fires Wilder due to his snide remarks over the Angels. George, having grown close to Roger throughout the movie, adopts him and his surrogate brother J.P., granting Roger his wish after all.
Standard kids movie film but a feel good one at that which ultimately is about the power of faith wrapped around a sports story. The 1994 version was followed by two [[MadeForTVMovie Made For TV sequels]] , 1997's ''Angels in the Endzone'' (Same thing with ''Outfield'' only with football) and 2000's ''Angels in the Infield'' which replaced Christopher Lloyd with David Alan Grier as the head angel.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* DaddyDidntShow: Roger's dad breaks his heart when, after the Angels are well on their way to winning the pennant (which he sarcastically said would be when they could be a family again), he gives up custody of Roger to the state.
* DownToTheLastPlay: Both versions.
* GameOfNerds: in the 1994 version, Rodger has a whole ''team'' full. Understanable since they're all ten years old or younger.
* GuardianAngel: Al, and it's implied the unnamed angel who talks to Mc_Govern is his guardian angel.
* HappilyAdopted
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Seems to be a prerequisite for seeing angels.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lots of them in the Disney version, Knox being an obvious example.
* {{Jerkass}}: [=McGovern=] starts out as one, and Bayles isn't much better.
* MagicFeather: In the original, the angels tell [=McGovern=] they're withdrawing their aid before the final game, since he lost his temper during a sanity hearing. But they say, "You've been on your own a lot of times this season without knowing it." In the remake, the whole crowd at an Angels baseball game makes wing flapping gestures to help their pitcher make a strikeout, without the divine intervention they've been relying on these past few months.
** Since everyone in the stadium was helping him it can also be considered a CombinedEnergyAttack.
* OrphanageOfLove: In the original film, St. Gabriel's Home for Orphan Girls is pretty much this. And it's run by pleasant, practical-minded HollywoodNuns.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The angels fit the standard good-guys-with-wings image, as befits a feel-good kids' movie. They are repelled by foul language, being pure and ethical in all respects ... except, it seems, for cheating at sports, which is perfectly okay if they're the ones doing it. In the original, they work mostly by influencing the players' and manager's intuition.
** In all fairness, the new version just had them, lending a hand, so to speak.
* PluckyComicRelief: Al and JP
* PutMeInCoach: In both versions, Hellman in the original and Clark in the remake -- only there's a minor subversion. It was the manager's idea.
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* SandInMyEyes: PlayedForLaughs in the remake. One of the ball players pokes fun at Coach Knox for shedding a tear during the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" before a game, but Knox shrugs it off as sunscreen getting in his eye.
* SaveOurTeam: From being the one that ''sucks'' the most!
* {{Sequel}}: ''Angels in the Endzone'' and ''Angels in the Infield''
* SpiritualSports
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