Minor-league moviemaking about minor-league baseball. A Dominican pitching prospect learns a knuckle-curve, gets invited to spring training in Arizona and assigned to a farm club in Iowa: a fish out of water, or at best a little fish in a big pond. It’s a bit flat and a bit rough around the edges, but it has some attentive detailing: the English-language class of useful words and phrases (“I got it! I got it!”), the kindly waitress who illustrates the different styles of egg in order to break the monotony of the foreigner’s daily French toast, the prim farm couple who billet him during the summer season (“No chickas in the bedroom”), and so on. The modesty of the production carries through to a modesty of plotting: no great success in the offing. With Algenis Perez Soto, Ellary Porterfield, Richard Bull, Ann Whitney, and Jaime Tirelli; directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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