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Dominican Rep. Game 6
- Original title
- Game 6
- Year
- 2005
- Running time
- 87 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Michael Keaton
Robert Downey Jr.
Griffin Dunne
Ari Graynor
Nadia Dajani
Bebe Neuwirth
Harris Yulin
Catherine O'Hara
John Tormey
Shalom Harlow- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Drama | 1980s. Baseball
- Synopsis
- Combining real and fictional events, Game 6 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.
Theatre in New York seems to exist in a world of its own with a unique community, characters, and lifestyle. (During the 1980s, this was even more the case, far from the corporate Times Square of today.) For New Yorkers, the universes of theatre and sports have always had a particular relevance, with a day-to-day effect on people's lives and a significance that gives them allegorical weight.
Game 6 embodies many of these qualities in a marvelously reflective and spirited portrait of a New York playwright who has had a run of bad luck. No, it's more than that. Nicky Rogan (the redoubtable Michael Keaton) is committed to the inevitability of failure and, like certain subcultures of sports fans, lives and dies with a team--the Boston Red Sox--whose fortunes never let him forget this obsession.
Working with a rich and superbly rendered script by the inestimable Don DeLillo, director Michael Hoffman constructs the wonderfully rarefied world of a man whose affairs are crumbling even as he plunges forward to open a new play. Nicky tries to relate to real life and write about things he cares for, but as his life falls apart, the archetypal villain of the theatrical world, a poisonously powerful critic (Robert Downey, Jr.) lies in wait, setting up a finale that challenges the fates and opens Nicky to a new understanding of life's vagaries.— Geoffrey Gilmore (from sundance.org)- Critics' reviews
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"A small, lovingly overwritten comic drama about fate, failure, and primal longing"
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"For audiences prepared to take the leap of faith and accept the unusual tone of the film, Game 6 should be a winner. Others may wonder what the fuss is about."
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"Small and intimate, Game 6 is a meditation on American theater"
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"'Game 6', the first screenplay by one of America's great living novelists, Don DeLillo, is poorly served by Michael Hoffman's flat, soporific direction"
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"Hoffman makes impressive use of his low budget, thanks to a talented cast, an atmospheric soundtrack by Yo La Tengo, and the general feeling of confidence that a veteran director can bring to a project"
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