🔴‘Eephus’ Review👀: A Wry and Lovely Baseball Movie That Pitches Slowballs of Quiet Wisdom✔
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Their future, it should also be pointed out, is our past: Lund sets the film in a throwback version of the ’90s where the players drive pickups and station wagons, and the signage is all hand-painted. One has a Plymouth with a push-button radio, on which hilarious spoofs of local advertising play, commercials where the business owner himself does the hard sell with all the flat, strained enthusiasm of the non-media-trained. Also on the radio: an announcer voiced by documentary maven Frederick Wiseman who, alongside Bill “Spaceman” Lee, the famous left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in the ’70s, gives the film its two starriest cameos, in among a deep bench of indie character actors. Some faces might be vaguely familiar, but not so much it ever distracts from the choral chemistry within the ensemble.
Observed only by a smattering of family members, one ancient fan, an avid scorekeeper called Franny (Cliff Blake, perfectly channeling later-life Jack Lemmon) and a couple of teens deeply unimpressed by the league’s amateur status (“They’re just, like, plumbers and shit,”) one by one, the men step up to the plate. But we’re not here to watch the game any more than they’re really here to play it. The minimal action of “Eephus” is contained in the dugout chatter, the banter in the outfield, the beer cans multiplying in the grass, the bright sky slowly darkening, the tempers that get lost and found. Church bells chime and commuter trains shunt by, and as day turns to night, there are no narrative fireworks here. Even when there are literal fireworks, Greg Tango’s camera is pointed, with sweetly perverse affection, away from them, at the empty dugout as it’s briefly illuminated by the offscreen sparklers and rockets.
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