Ball of Wax (2003)

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Bret Packard (Mark Mench) is a professional baseball player with incalculable fame, money, and talent. He is unsatisfied with his success, however, and bored with the game - so he decides to play his own. He decides to throw his team and family into a tailspin of deception and malevolence with a… More Bret Packard (Mark Mench) is a professional baseball player with incalculable fame, money, and talent. He is unsatisfied with his success, however, and bored with the game - so he decides to play his own. He decides to throw his team and family into a tailspin of deception and malevolence with a series of mind games, pitting allies against each other and irreparably changing the sport and himself. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: Daniel Kraus
Genres: Drama

In Theaters: Mar 6, 2003 Wide
On DVD: Mar 8, 2005

Critic Reviews

Ryan Cracknell, Movie Views
In Daniel Kraus' dark baseball film Ball of Wax, life on the diamond is clearly no longer a sport. It's something sinister, like a virus refusing to let go of its host.
Bill Gibron, DVD Verdict
Daniel Kraus and his talented cast and crew knock this one out of the park. Ball of Wax is an All-Star of an independent film.
Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews
Uneven black comedy.

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Cast

Mark Mench
as Bret Packard
Justin Smith
as Tod Ellis
Traci Dinwiddie
as Nat Packard

Cullen Moss
as Ricky Sparks
Daniel Morris
as Jimmy Ingels
Kevin Scanlon
as Sal Reilly

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