An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nolte) gets a younger friend (Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
alcoholic, fishing, estranged father, divorce, brother sister relationship, broken window, no opening credits, high school reunion, funeral, father son relationship, baseball, graffiti, isolation, vandalism, underage drinking, umpire, train tracks, toilet paper, surrogate father, loneliness
The leads are good, and Timothy Hutton is memorably off-putting as the pitcher's disengaged dad. But having created the aching umpire, Ponsoldt occupies him with some fairly shopworn situation.
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