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* PostVictoryCollapse: Rafer passes out and falls on his face after hitting a home run. [[spoiler:He's rushed to the hospital, where he's diagnosed with a fatal blood disease.]]
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* PostVictoryCollapse: Rafer passes out and falls on his face after hitting a home run. [[spoiler:He's rushed to the hospital, where he's diagnosed with a fatal blood disease.]]
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* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Richard's mother sends him outside to play when she gets a phone call telling her that [[spoiler:Richard's father has gone missing in Vietnam and may be dead]].
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* PrivacyByDistraction: Richard's mother sends him outside to play when she gets a phone call telling her that [[spoiler:Richard's father has gone missing in Vietnam and may be dead]].
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* AndStarring: Everyone has an "As..." credit. There's also "And Nancy Stafford as Nurse Barbara," and "And introducing Kula as [[BigFriendlyDog Sawdust]]."
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* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Zack and his dad are both believers in this trope. When Zack says, "Third place feels like I... failed," his dad says, "Good! It's first place or nothing, son! That's the American way!"
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* HorribleHousing: Rafer and his dad's home is run-down, dirty, and badly-lit.
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* AlwaysWithYou: Rafer gives each of his teammates a rock as a present. The rocks act as {{good luck charm}}s that improve their skills. When [[spoiler:Rafer is in the hospital]], one boy even says that Rafer is still with them.
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* ManlyTears: Rafer's dad sheds these over [[spoiler:Rafer's impending death]].
* OpposingSportsTeam: Although Booger is the meanest of the Hawks, they're all pretty horrible, and their coach encourages their behavior.
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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After Zack learns that [[spoiler:Rafer is dying]], he runs to their field, slumps against the backstop, and yells at {{God}}, "Rebecca says you do everything. You have a reason FOR EVERYTHING!!"
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* YourMom: When the coach says, "It's not over till the fat lady sings," one kid quips, "I didn't know your mom was gonna be at the game." Later, there's a more serious, gender-swapped version when Booger distracts Richard during a game by talking about all the people his dad killed in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]].
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* LittlestCancerPatient: [[spoiler:Rafer, after he's found to be terminally ill.]]
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* ColorWash: After [[spoiler:Rafer is diagnosed with a blood disease]], the colors seem duller and grayer for a short while.
* CowTipping: Donnie asks Zack, "Swimming in the summer, or cow tipping in winter?" Zack replies, "Swimming in the summer, I guess."
* CowTipping: Donnie asks Zack, "Swimming in the summer, or cow tipping in winter?" Zack replies, "Swimming in the summer, I guess."
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: One Robin says, "No way. No way anybody will ever make a movie about ComicBook/SpiderMan. Who wants to see an insect fight crime?" The first movie about Spider-Man came out in 1977.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Richard Powell, aka Music/LittleRichard. While most of the Robins look about 13, Richard looks like he's still in elementary school.
* TheBully: Booger Clark, of the Hawks, is fond of shoving other kids around, calling Rafer and occasionally other people retards, and insulting people at every opportunity.
* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Richard's mother sends him outside to play when she gets a phone call telling her that [[spoiler:Richard's father has gone missing in Vietnam and may be dead]].
* TheBully: Booger Clark, of the Hawks, is fond of shoving other kids around, calling Rafer and occasionally other people retards, and insulting people at every opportunity.
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* StockYuck: Richard hates broccoli.
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''Season of Miracles'' is a 2013 Christian sports film written by Rusty Whitener, directed by Dave Moody, and based on the novel ''A Season of Miracles'' by Whitener.
In 1974 Alabama, Zack (Andrew Wilson Williams) is the head of the Robins, a Little League baseball team. When he discovers that local autistic boy Rafer Forrester (Grayson Russell) is a baseball prodigy, he invites him to join the team, and the Robins rise towards a championship season.
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!!''Season of Miracles'' contains examples of:
* NostalgicNarrator: The movie opens with Zack as a middle-aged man visiting the old baseball field, where he picks up a baseball lying in the grass. Most of the rest of the movie takes place in flashback.
* ParentalAbandonment: Rafer's mother, Felicia, left when she realized his "difference" wasn't going to go away.
* TitleIn: "Alabama, 1974"
* WakingNonSequitur: One boy dozes off during church and mutters "Blue Kool-Aid" as he wakes up.
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In 1974 Alabama, Zack (Andrew Wilson Williams) is the head of the Robins, a Little League baseball team. When he discovers that local autistic boy Rafer Forrester (Grayson Russell) is a baseball prodigy, he invites him to join the team, and the Robins rise towards a championship season.
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!!''Season of Miracles'' contains examples of:
* NostalgicNarrator: The movie opens with Zack as a middle-aged man visiting the old baseball field, where he picks up a baseball lying in the grass. Most of the rest of the movie takes place in flashback.
* ParentalAbandonment: Rafer's mother, Felicia, left when she realized his "difference" wasn't going to go away.
* TitleIn: "Alabama, 1974"
* WakingNonSequitur: One boy dozes off during church and mutters "Blue Kool-Aid" as he wakes up.
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