Girls of Summer
Holly is a former model who wants to open her own modeling agency. She is the only female playing on the Hornets softball team with her cousin Jake, who is the coach as well as one of the best players…
Girls of Summer
Holly is a former model who wants to open her own modeling agency. She is the only female playing on the Hornets softball team with her cousin Jake, who is the coach as well as one of the best players. At a bar, Jake is arguing with Gary, the coach of another team in the league, about how good he is. Gary claims Jake's team is good because it has so many good players. After drinking, Jake claims he could win the championship with a team made up entirely of female models like Holly. Jake already has a gambling problem which leads to visits from big rough guys, and he bets Gary $5,000--no, make that $50,000--that he can turn a group of models into a championship team. Jake wakes up the next day. Did he really do that? Can he get out of the bet? No, Gary is insisting he go through with it. So next time he meets with the team, he has to make the terrible announcement. All the other male players will have to join other league teams, and his team will be female models or former models, except for him. The recruiting starts with Holly's shallow, empty-headed and gorgeous roommates. Olive is actually sort of smart, meaning street-smart. She is manipulative, like the girls in clips from reality shows, or in parodies of those shows. Kat is athletic. She played cricket, which is a lot like softball. She finally hits the ball. And runs to third. As expected, Jake ends up with a team made up mostly of bored girls with little ability who can't give up their phones. The result of the first league game is predictable. It was hoped the girls would be enough of a distraction that the guys on the other team wouldn't play their best. That worked later when the girls flirted or otherwise acted like girls, and when they took off their tops and revealed their bras (not sports bras with full coverage, either). But not here. One umpire, though, can be manipulated. Remember Tom Hanks' quote, "There's no crying in baseball!" There is in softball. All league games are broadcast by Big Wave Dave. Broadcast standards apparently don't apply. Some of Dave's comments don't make it past the censors who got the movie ready for broadcast. New members join the team. Christine was a spectator in the first game shown, when Jake still had only guys and Holly on his team. She had a one-night stand with Gary, but now she wants to play. For Jake. Rachel is Jake's ex, who Jake visits at work. No, absolutely not. No way! Okay, she later changes her mind. Millie is a plus-size model, and butch. That counts. The girl playing her has skills that indicate she must be an Olympic competitor like her character, not an actress. Over time, the girls get better, but not that much better, and Jake and others scheme to change Gary's mind. In one scene, Holly is on a date with Gary, hoping she can make him see her point of view. Meanwhile, Jake needs help getting the goons to stop coming after him for bets he already lost. So will the girls actually win the championship? There are plenty of obstacles, but they are actually overcome and the girls do much more than anyone thought possible. Otherwise, why would there even be a movie? The big question is how far can they go.
Girls of Summer
Comedy,Sport
Film Details
Holly is a former model who wants to open her own modeling agency. She is the only female playing on the Hornets softball team with her cousin Jake, who is the coach as well as one of the best players. At a bar, Jake is arguing with Gary, the coach of another team in the league, about how good he is.
Gary claims Jake's team is good because it has so many good players. After drinking, Jake claims he could win the championship with a team made up entirely of female models like Holly. Jake already has a gambling problem which leads to visits from big rough guys, and he bets Gary $5,000--no, make that $50,000--that he can turn a group of models into a championship team.
Jake wakes up the next day. Did he really do that? Can he get out of the bet? No, Gary is insisting he go through with it. So next time he meets with the team, he has to make the terrible announcement.
All the other male players will have to join other league teams, and his team will be female models or former models, except for him. The recruiting starts with Holly's shallow, empty-headed and gorgeous roommates. Olive is actually sort of smart, meaning street-smart.
She is manipulative, like the girls in clips from reality shows, or in parodies of those shows. Kat is athletic. She played cricket, which is a lot like softball.
She finally hits the ball. And runs to third. As expected, Jake ends up with a team made up mostly of bored girls with little ability who can't give up their phones.
The result of the first league game is predictable. It was hoped the girls would be enough of a distraction that the guys on the other team wouldn't play their best. That worked later when the girls flirted or otherwise acted like girls, and when they took off their tops and revealed their bras (not sports bras with full coverage, either).
But not here. One umpire, though, can be manipulated. Remember Tom Hanks' quote, "There's no crying in baseball!" There is in softball.
All league games are broadcast by Big Wave Dave. Broadcast standards apparently don't apply. Some of Dave's comments don't make it past the censors who got the movie ready for broadcast.
New members join the team. Christine was a spectator in the first game shown, when Jake still had only guys and Holly on his team. She had a one-night stand with Gary, but now she wants to play.
For Jake. Rachel is Jake's ex, who Jake visits at work. No, absolutely not.
No way! Okay, she later changes her mind. Millie is a plus-size model, and butch. That counts.
The girl playing her has skills that indicate she must be an Olympic competitor like her character, not an actress. Over time, the girls get better, but not that much better, and Jake and others scheme to change Gary's mind. In one scene, Holly is on a date with Gary, hoping she can make him see her point of view.
Meanwhile, Jake needs help getting the goons to stop coming after him for bets he already lost. So will the girls actually win the championship? There are plenty of obstacles, but they are actually overcome and the girls do much more than anyone thought possible. Otherwise, why would there even be a movie? The big question is how far can they go..