Pastime
Summary:
This highly rated independent production was written years before Bull Durham, and though it covers much of the same territory, it is considered worth seeing in its own right. In the story, Roy Dean Bream (William Russ) is too old to be part of his minor-league baseball team's cultural mainstream. In short, he's often ignored, derided, or treated to the worst or last of everything,... Full Summary >>
Cast:
William Russ - (Roy Dean Bream)
Glenn Plummer - (Tyrone Debray)
Noble Willingham - (Clyde Bigby)
Jeffrey Tambor - (Peter LaPorte)
Scott Plank - (Randy Keever)
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Review:
Baseball has always had a built-in sense of wistfulness, and the washed-up veteran pitcher is a pretty archetypal representation of that. The subject matter of Pastime is not, therefore, what you would call "new"; even the title recalls the sport's American pastoral origins, and that's far from the only derivative element in the movie. But that ... Continue >>
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