Dramatization of the life of real life major league baseball player Mike Donlin..
Albert S. Le Vino
United States
The first time we glimpse Mike Donlin—through a haze of projector flicker and nitrate shimmer—he’s already mid-swing, bat torquing like a question mark hurled at the cosmos. That image, burned into the leader of Albert S. Le Vino’s brittle screenplay, promises a hagiography; what unfurls instead is a cautionary canta...
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" The first time we glimpse Mike Donlin—through a haze of projector flicker and nitrate shimmer—he’s already mid-swing, bat torquing like a question mark hurled at the cosmos. That image, burned into the leader of Albert S. Le Vino’s brittle screenplay, promises a hagiography; what unfurls instead is a cautionary cantata scored to the crack of ash on horsehide and the hiss of seltzer siphons in midnight speakeasies. Le Vino, a scribbler more accustomed to pulp confessionals than box-score ortho..."
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