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44% Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Robin B. Armstrong Music by Lee Holdridge Initial release 8 November 1990 Box office 267,265 USD Producer Robin B. Armstrong | 7/10 IMDb 2.2/5 Rate Your Music Written by David Eyre Jr. Cinematography Tom Richmond Director Robin B. Armstrong Music director Lee Holdridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Robin B. Armstrong
Eric Tynan Young Starring William Russ
Glenn Plummer
Noble Willingham
Jeffrey Tambor
Scott Plank Cast William Russ, Glenn Plummer, Jeffrey Tambor, Noble Willingham, Scott Plank Similar Bang the Drum Slowly, Hardball, The Rookie, For Love of the Game, Georgia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pastime is a 1990 American drama film directed by Robin B. Armstrong and written by David Eyre Jr.. The film stars William Russ, Glenn Plummer, Noble Willingham, Jeffrey Tambor and Scott Plank. The film was released on August 23, 1991, by Miramax Films.
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Plot
In 1957, a California low-level minor-league baseball team called the Steamers has a pitcher way beyond his prime, 41-year-old Roy Dean Bream, who reminisces about his brief "cup of coffee" in the Major Leagues and how the great Stan Musial once hit a grand slam home run against him.
New to the team is 17-year-old Tyron Debray, a fireballing pitcher Bream immediately takes under his wing. Because one is old, talkative and white and the other young, quiet and black, various tensions materialize on the team, many of them instigated by Randy Keever, a bad-tempered bully who is another of the team's pitchers.
Bream is keeping a secret as he goes through what is likely to be his final season, a heart condition for which he is taking medication. His dream is to see young Debray succeed and to get one last chance himself before giving up America's "national pastime," baseball, once and for all.