Off the Black | |
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Would you let this man be your father? |
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Directed by | James Ponsoldt |
Produced by | Scott Macauley Robin O'Hara |
Written by | James Ponsoldt |
Starring | Nick Nolte Trevor Morgan Timothy Hutton Sally Kirkland |
Music by | Claire Campbell Alex Neville Brian Petway |
Cinematography | Tim Orr |
Editing by | Sabine Hoffmann |
Distributed by | THINKFilm |
Release date(s) | December 8, 2006 (Sundance Film Festival) |
Running time | 90 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Off the Black is a 2006 American drama film starring Nick Nolte and Trevor Morgan. It was written and directed by James Ponsoldt, who also has a small role in the film, and is his feature directorial debut.
Ray Cook (Nolte) is a bitter, disconcerted high school baseball umpire and chronic alcoholic who, after a series of unusual events, crosses paths with Dave Tibbel (Morgan), a high school baseball player seeking revenge after Cook's questionable calls cost his team the most crucial game of the season. Over time, an unlikely bond forms between the mismatched pair, and Dave agrees to pose as Ray's son for the old man's forty-year high school reunion. The film is a story of two wandering lost souls, one an adolescent boy struggling (along with his younger sister-a sad lonely Sonia Feigelson) with an absent mother and a father (played brilliantly by Timothy Hutton) who has entirely checked out, and the other an older man, who has seen the curve balls life can throw at you and continuously struck out in his struggle to be the man he wishes to be.
Actor | Role |
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Trevor Morgan | Dave Tibbel |
Nick Nolte | Ray Cook |
Sonia Feigelson | Ashley Tibbel |
Rosemarie DeWitt | Debra |
Timothy Hutton | Mr. Tibbel |
Sally Kirkland | Marianne Reynolds |
Noah Fleiss | Todd Hunter |
Johnathan Tchaikovsky | Paul Michaels |
Michael Higgins | Al Cook |