movie #8........................."Game 6"

Movie #8 "Game 6" refers to the sixth game in the Boston Red Sox vs. Mets series (1985) where Billy Biuckner (ex cub, I might add) dropped that fatal ground ball that lost them game 6 ---------Nicky is a NY playwright who feels a failure ------ in being a husband, a father, a writer, a son, just basically in life --- even his favorite team (the Red Sox) fail year after year to win the world series (he should try being a Cub fan) - Game 6 happens to occur on the night of his show and he goes to a bar to watch his team lose, rather than see some upstart critic "kill" his play --- he decides he should take matters in his own hands. The high point and turn at the end was good, but not sure it was worth the 82 minute wait -----slow until the last few minutes where we are watching the ball game and its inevitable conclusion. Micheal Keaton was really good here, though. And of course Robert Downey, Jr who. is usually good, is the critic.

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Game 6(2005) R

Legendary scribe Don DeLillo wrote this fascinating film about a New York playwright, Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton), who's immersed in failure. Unable to ride the coattails of success no matter how hard he tries, Nicky distracts himself from his endless career woes by obsessing about those of others -- namely, the perpetual underdogs of baseball, the Boston Red Sox. But Nicky can't sit out the game of life forever. Michael Hoffman directs.