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Game 6
Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
2006 · Directed by Michael Hoffman · 87 min · Drama · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 5 frames
Tagline
Where were you on that night?
Plot
Nicky Rogan has written several successful plays. It's now opening night of his latest effort and everyone around him assures him that this play will be his best yet. But as opening hour approaches, Rogan becomes anxious, influenced by another playwright whose last work was trashed by the local newspaper's new drama critic, Steven Schwimmer. Fearing his new play might get the same treatment from Schwimmer, Rogan resolves to kill the critic and procures a handgun with which to perform the deed.
Instead of attending the play's opening night, Rogan spends time in a bar, accompanied by a lady cab driver and her grandson; earlier in the evening she misidentified Rogan as a local, small-time hoodlum but he doesn't correct her misidentification.
They watch the crucial Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets. The Sox have won 3 games and could clinch the title by winning Game 6 but Rogan, a lifelong Sox fan, knows how easily the team can lose when they should win. He spends the evening waiting for the inevitable, even though the Sox are leading most of the time. When the inevitable does occur (due to an unexpected pair of errors at the end of the final inning), he snaps and leaves to take out his rage on the newspaper critic.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Don DeLillo
- Cinematography: David M. Dunlap
- Edited by: Camilla Toniolo
- Music: Ira Kaplan
- Production design: Bill Groom
- Produced by: Bryan Iler, Leslie Urdang, Christina Weiss Lurie, Amy Robinson
Cast
- Michael Keaton as Nicky Rogan
- Robert Downey Jr. as Steven Schwimmer
- Ari Graynor as Laurel Rogan
- Griffin Dunne as Elliott Litvak
- Bebe Neuwirth as Joanna Bourne
- Shalom Harlow as Paisley Porter
- Nadia Dajani as Renee Simons
- Harris Yulin as Peter Redmond
- Catherine O'Hara as Lillian Rogan
- Tom Aldredge as Michael Rogan
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Cantonese, Hindi, English
- Studios: Vox3 Films, Serenade Films, Double Play, ShadowCatcher Entertainment
- Budget: $1,000,000
- Box office: $129,201
- Themes: sports, taxi driver, red sox, critic, haircut, divorce lawyer, world series, broadway theatre
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