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   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   Picked this one up for a couple of bucks at Goodwill. Johnny Simmons   
   plays a sought after young baseball pitcher bound for the majors, Ethan   
   Hawke is his sadist-psycho dad, Paul Giamatti is his genial "sports   
   therapist," and Sophie Kennedy Clark is his hottie girlfriend. I don't   
   know if Simmons had any kind of career of note before or after this one   
   (he's nowhere else in my database anyway) but he turns in a good   
   performance, as do the dependable Giamatti and Hawke. The therapy scenes   
   between the troubled Simmons and Giamatti seem to rise above the normal   
   Hollywood fare for such scenes; at one point Giamatti even reads him a   
   passage by literary wunderkind F. Scott Fitzgerald. I thought the ending   
   of this tidy 85 min. film was kind of abrupt but whatever. Hawke and   
   Giamatti don't share any scenes and in the featurette we learn Giamatti   
   has never even met Hawke (at least at the time of this movie).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)