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A LITTLE INSIDE
2001 www.alittleinside.com

STARS Benjamin King (Lethal Weapon 4), Kathy Bakr (Cider House Rules), Jared Padalecki (Gilmore Girls) and Hallie Kate Eisenberg (Beautiful,Bicentennial Man, Pepsi commercials)

Synopsis: A little inside is a heartwarming story of an unbreakable bond between a single father and his young daughter through the shared love of baseball.Ed Mills (King), once a professional baseball player whose dream was shattered by a personal tragedy, now works as a mechanic in a small town garage. His entire life revolves around raising his seven year old daughter, Abby (Eisenberg), the only way he knows how: through baseball. 
Evenings are spent throwing the ball around; weekends devoted to little league games. Ed feels that he has finally restored an almost perfect balance to their lives until the unthinkable happens. Abby has had enough of her all-boy team and the embarrassing fact that she has never hit the ball. Her friends take ballet and ballet looks fun. Ed knows nothing about ballet, nothing about raising a girl. What about their lives together...and baseball?
Ed grudgingly takes the advice of their annoying early-fifties neighbour, Nancy (Baker), to give Abby the space she needs to discover her own interests outside of baseball. The drift between Ed and Abby intensifies as the once sacred father/daughter time previously spent throwing the ball around, is now spent at ballet and sleepovers. What's more problematic for Ed, is that Abby has found a woman's careful influence in Nancy, and Nancy has found a distraction for her lonliness in Abby. Ed now watches Yankee games alone, lost in the emptiness that must somehow be filled.
As he looks to find a way to reach out to Abby while following his own dreams, Ed returns to his old stomping ground, Clipper Stadium, and readies himself to play professional baseball again. As he attempts to hold on while letting go of the past, he learns that Abby doesn't need to be just like him to love him. Ed and Abby discover that all they need is right in front of them: each other.