Q&A with actors Keith Poulson and Greg Falatek to follow the screening of Eephus
Saturday, October 19 at 12:15 PM at the Film Society Bourse
CARSON LUND | USA | 2024 | 99 MIN | ENGLISH
In rural New England, a group of amateur baseball players assembles for one last game in this gentle, melancholy debut from Carson Lund. Set in Massachusetts sometime in the 1990s, Eephus brings together a motley crew of small-town characters—most hovering around middle age—as they gather for the last game of their recreational league’s season. It’s the waning days of autumn, and change is in the air. Soon, the field is set to be razed and replaced with a school. With a keen ear for the leisurely rhythms and cadences of both baseball and small-town life, Lund follows various members of the two teams as they bicker and gossip, laugh and reminisce, comically prolonging the game with extra innings as day fades slowly into night. Eschewing many of the typical trappings of the sports movie, the film is less concerned with who wins or loses the game than with the camaraderie and release that truly bring these characters to the field. Along with the baseball field, a way of life is disappearing, too, and the film acts as a subtle elegy for a particular brand of community spirit.
Cast: Keith William Richards, Stephen Radochia, Cliff Blake, Bill “Spaceman” Lee
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