Eephus

Opens March 21

Part of: Play Ball! A Baseball Series

2024 98 mins DCP

Rated
ur
Carson Lund
Michael Basta, Nate Fisher, Carson Lund
Keith William Richards, Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Wayne Diamond

A Music Box Films Release

Director Carson Lund in attendance for a post-film Q&A following the Friday, 3/21 7pm screening

Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America’s eternal pastime. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away.

2024
USA
English
98 mins
Comedy

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Eephus

Theatre 1 / DCP

Director Carson Lund in attendance for a post-film Q&A