American Pastime
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 22, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gary Cole & Judy Ongg | |
Directed by | Desmond Nakano |
Entertainment Reviews:
Full of interesting characters and placed in a charged setting, but the preachy and obvious spin it takes is ultimately melodramatic and predictable.
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Movie Views
Rating: C --
While historically sensitive and thought-provoking, the film has serious flaws. The story line is scattered and the direction uneven.
Fresno Bee
With such rich material about dreams deferred, it's disheartening that co-writer-director Desmond Nakano's nobly made but patchy drama mires itself in nostalgia tropes and storytelling clichés.
L.A. Weekly
Rating: 2.5/5 --
While everything else about Pastime is very good, it's all rooted in a mediocre screenplay.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
American Pastime's inclusive, forgiving message could hardly be more admirable. It could have been more exciting, though.
Los Angeles Daily News
Rating: 3/5 --
A moving, heartfelt drama.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
American Pastime asks what it truly means to be an American. What better question to ask these days?
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Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
AMERICAN PASTIME takes a Japanese perspective on the events of World War II, making it a cinematic cousin of Clint Eastwood's LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA. Most of the events take place after the war has finished, and revolve around a group of Japanese-Americans who faced prejudice and scorn in the U.S. Fortunately, their love of baseball goes a long way to repairing Japanese and American relations.