98 mins |
Rated
Not Rated
Directed by Carson Lund
Starring Keith Poulson, Frederick Wiseman, Theodore Bouloukos, David Pridemore, Cliff Blake, Keith William Richards, Ray Hryb, Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Stephen Radochia, John Smith Jr., Pete Minkarah, Wayne Diamond, Frederick Wiseman
As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved baseball field, two New England recreational teams play ball for the last time. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players chat, laugh, and squabble as they face the uncertainty of a new era. Named for a rare curveball, Carson Lund’s poignant comedy is an ode to sports, community, and the passage of time.
“A movie made just for me, and maybe for you as well .... A funny, elegiac feature directorial debut.” - Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
“The Best Baseball Movie in Years. Everyone who’s ever played for a crappy amateur sports team should go see Eephus.” - Dan Kois, Slate
“The best baseball movie since Moneyball. In this slow-pitch gem of a baseball movie, time is slipping away, but they’re going down swinging. Richly detailed and mordantly deadpan, Eephus adopts their pace of play, soaking up all the sesame-seed flavor that goes along with it.”
- Jake Coyle, Associated Press
“Wonderfully funny and melancholy .... Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title ... Eephus has a great, loving feel for its ramshackle setting and those who inhabit it. ”
- Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“Where Lund depicts baseball, he seemingly X-rays it to reveal a plethora of fine points and arcana that, once grasped, yield up the hidden meanings of infinitesimal gestures ... In presenting the game, Lund develops a passionately analytical aesthetic of baseball that offers a corrective to the way it’s usually depicted. His documentary-based method, in rejecting the patterned routines of television coverage, intensifies the drama of the sport itself.”
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“An adorably existential, off-kilter take on the sports movie ... A wry and lovely baseball movie that pitches slowballs of quiet wisdom.”
- Jessica Kiang, Variety
“There may be no better movie about baseball”
- Jordan Raup, The Film Stage
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As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved baseball field, two New England recreational teams play ball for the last time. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players chat, laugh, and squabble as they face the uncertainty of a new era. Named for a rare curveball, Carson Lund’s poignant comedy is an ode to sports, community, and the passage of time.
“A movie made just for me, and maybe for you as well .... A funny, elegiac feature directorial debut.” - Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times
“The Best Baseball Movie in Years. Everyone who’s ever played for a crappy amateur sports team should go see Eephus.” - Dan Kois, Slate
“The best baseball movie since Moneyball. In this slow-pitch gem of a baseball movie, time is slipping away, but they’re going down swinging. Richly detailed and mordantly deadpan, Eephus adopts their pace of play, soaking up all the sesame-seed flavor that goes along with it.”
- Jake Coyle, Associated Press
“Wonderfully funny and melancholy .... Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title ... Eephus has a great, loving feel for its ramshackle setting and those who inhabit it. ”
- Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“Where Lund depicts baseball, he seemingly X-rays it to reveal a plethora of fine points and arcana that, once grasped, yield up the hidden meanings of infinitesimal gestures ... In presenting the game, Lund develops a passionately analytical aesthetic of baseball that offers a corrective to the way it’s usually depicted. His documentary-based method, in rejecting the patterned routines of television coverage, intensifies the drama of the sport itself.”
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“An adorably existential, off-kilter take on the sports movie ... A wry and lovely baseball movie that pitches slowballs of quiet wisdom.”
- Jessica Kiang, Variety
“There may be no better movie about baseball”
- Jordan Raup, The Film Stage
