Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of “Eephus” showing March 28-April 3 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adlers 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 — an ode to sports, community and the passage of time.
“There may be no better movie about baseball.” — Jordan Raup, The Film Stage
“Eephus” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre March 28-April 3. Showtimes will be Friday and Monday, March 28 and 31 at 4:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 29 at 12:30 p.m.; and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 1, 2 and 3 at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are $12 general admission, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.