Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch

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Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch
Seventh Inning Air Bud.jpg
DVD cover art
Directed by Robert Vince
Screenplay bySara Sutton
Stephanie Isherwood
Anne Vince
Anna McRoberts
Story byRobert Vince
Based onCharacters
by Paul Tamasy
Aaron Mendelsohn
Kevin DiCicco
Produced byAnna McRoberts
Robert Vince
Starring Kevin Zegers
Caitlin Wachs
Cynthia Stevenson
Molly Hagan
Patrick Cranshaw
CinematographySteve Adelson
Edited byKelly Herron
Jason Pielak
Music byBrahm Wenger
Eric Rohm
Production
companies
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment [lower-alpha 1]
Release date
February 21, 2002
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Canada
LanguageEnglish

Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (also known as Air Bud 4) is a 2002 sports comedy film directed by Robert Vince. It is the fourth film in the Air Bud series and the final one to feature any cast members from the original film.

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Plot

Josh is off to his first year of college and Buddy has stayed behind with Josh's little sister, Andrea, and the rest of the family. Jackie and Patrick have recently welcomed Josh and Andrea's half-brother Noah. Andrea, attempting to fit in with her junior high classmates, decides to join the baseball team. Along the way she discovers that Buddy also has the uncanny ability to play baseball. Just as the season is settling in, a terrible discovery is made — many local athletically talented dogs have mysteriously started disappearing with the help of the kidnappers' little helper, Rocky Raccoon. It turns out the kidnappers were researchers who were dognapping them because they thought they had a special gene that would enable them to play sports. Buddy must find them and make it to the major leagues as he goes to bat for the Anaheim Angels.

Cast

Release

Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch was released directly to DVD and VHS on February 21, 2002 by Walt Disney Home Entertainment. It was reissued by Disney on DVD on June 16, 2008 in a double-pack alongside Air Bud: Spikes Back .

Mill Creek Entertainment reissued the film on January 14, 2020 on a 2-disc boxset, also containing other Air Bud films owned by Air Bud Entertainment. [1]

All five Air Bud films, including Seventh Inning Fetch, arrived on Disney+ on October 1, 2023. [2]

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References

  1. "Air Bud Collection".
  2. Schwartz, Ryan (September 29, 2023). "The Air Bud Movies Are Coming to Disney+ — Whether John Oliver Likes It or Not". TVLine. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  1. Under Walt Disney Home Entertainment imprint.