Pastime

Pastime (1991)

  • 44% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 54% of users liked it
    (84 ratings)

This highly rated independent production was written years before Bull Durham, and though it covers much of the same territory, it is considered worth seeing in its own right. In the story, Roy Dean Bream (William Russ) is too old to be part of his minor-league baseball team's cultural… More

PG,
Directed By
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Aug 23, 1991 Wide
Miramax

Critic Reviews

  • Ryan Cracknell, Movie Views

    Plays an honorable game, tackling the touchy subject of ageism on the baseball field. But it's ultimately a hollow attempt, one that thinks that just by touching on a subject that it makes up a plot.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Pastime is a thoughtfully made and intimate drama about a veteran relief pitcher for a class D professional team who turns to mentoring a younger player as his way of saluting the sport he loves.

  • Kevin Fiddler, Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)

    Great film on minor league baseball in a different time.

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  • Jim H


    An aging pitcher takes a promising African-American hurler under his wing in the minor leagues. The title of this film is a pun: baseball is America's pastime and the main character is past his time. I'm not saying the pun is clever or that I like it; I'm just saying I… More

  • Anthony L


    Now a lot of you movie fans will read this synopsis and immediately draw several allusions to the 1988 Baseball classic Bull Durham with Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins. It should be noted that Pastime did indeed come out a few years after Durham but the story Pastime is adopted from… More

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