Red Sox movie ready for release in Maine New film chronicles bond between team, fans

The Red Sox are hitting the silver screen.

If Boston Red Sox fans didn’t get enough highlights, hi-jinks, happiness and heartache during the 2003 baseball season, there’s more to glean from a new movie chronicling the unique relationship between the Sox and their fans.

A film that has been getting a lot of publicity in New England the last couple weeks, “Still, We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie,” will finally be opening in Maine theaters over the next two weeks. If reliving the agony and the ecstasy of the 2003 season can’t entice you to buy a ticket, publicists are hoping a contest promotion will.

Fans – primarily those in the Boston area, so you diehards will have to make it a road trip – will have the chance to enter a contest featuring prizes like an autographed Red Sox player jersey and autographed baseball. The grand prize includes four VIP seats to a Red Sox game, a Fenway Park tour, a chance to watch batting practice, dinner at the Fenway’s .406 Club, and an autographed jersey.

To enter, fans must mail in their theater ticket stubs for the movie along with personal contact information (name, address, phone number) by May 11 to: The Red Sox Movie Promotion, 398 Columbus Avenue, PMB 355, Boston, MA, 02116-6008. Winners will be announced May 14 on the www.kiss108.com web site.

The movie is schedule to open at selected New England theaters today. It will open in most major theaters nationwide May 21.

Take a swing at reality

The Golf Channel is offering female viewers a chance to star on The Big Break reality show – which will feature female golfers for the first time – and play on the LPGA Tour.

The third season of The Big Break, which will begin production in September and start airing in January, will involve 10 women who will be culled from thousands of applicants nationwide. Candidates can apply for The Big Break III (ladies edition) by logging onto www.thegolfchannel.com. To qualify, applicants must be at least 18 years old and hold a verifiable handicap of 3 or better.

The 10 final candidates will be invited to audition at one of six sites across the United States. The first one will be June 12 at Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va. The grand prize is an entry into select LPGA tournaments including the Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill.

Andrew Neff can be reached at 990-8205, 1-800-310-8600, or aneff@bangordailynews.net.