<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $16.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Everyone's Hero is a 2006 American computer - animated sports comedy film directed by Colin Brady, Christopher Reeve, and Daniel St. Pierre . It was produced by IDT Entertainment in Toronto, with portions outsourced to Reel FX Creative Studios . It was distributed by 20th Century Fox and released theatrically on September 15, 2006 . Everyone's Hero earned $16 million worldwide during its theatrical run . The film stars Jake T. Austin, William H. Macy, Rob Reiner, Brian Dennehy, Raven - Symoné, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind, Dana Reeve, Joe Torre, Mandy Patinkin, Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg . Everyone's Hero was released on DVD on March 20, 2007, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment . </P> <P> In 1932, during the Great Depression, Yankee Irving (Jake T. Austin) is young baseball fan, whose father Stanley (Mandy Patinkin) works as a janitor for Yankee Stadium . While the two are on the premises, a thief steals Babe Ruth's famous bat Darlin' (Whoopi Goldberg), with the result that Yankee's father is blamed and fired, who blamed Yankee for stealing it and framing his own father . The true thief is Lefty Maginnis (William H. Macy), a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs . Lefty works for Cubs owner Napoleon Cross (Robin Williams), who desires to see the Cubs defeat the Yankees during the 1932 World Series . </P> <P> Stealing the bat back, Yankee decides to return it to Ruth and thereby exonerate his father by journeying across the country to Chicago, where the next World Series' games will be played . Darlin' is able to speak, as does her counterpart Screwie (Rob Reiner), a baseball, who she constantly argues and bickers with (though near the end, they finally become friends). Much of the plot is driven by Lefty's comic attempts to retrieve the bat from Yankee, with slapstick results . Other scenes involve Yankee meeting others who will help him in his quest: several hobos (Ed Helms); Marti (Raven - Symone), an African American girl; her baseball player father Lonnie Brewster (Forest Whitaker); and in Chicago, Babe Ruth himself (Brian Dennehy). </P>

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