The Only Real Game

Name: The Only Real Game
Genre: Sport, Documentary
Released: March 7, 2014
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 69

2014

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Fork Films | Release Date: March 7, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: The Only Real Game explores the power of baseball for people in a troubled, distant place. The small, once princely state of Manipur joined the Indian Union under pressure in 1949 triggering a corrosive separatist conflict that continues to this day. With paltry infrastructure, widespread corruption and unemployment - it's an astonishingThe Only Real Game explores the power of baseball for people in a troubled, distant place. The small, once princely state of Manipur joined the Indian Union under pressure in 1949 triggering a corrosive separatist conflict that continues to this day. With paltry infrastructure, widespread corruption and unemployment - it's an astonishing place to find reservoirs of inner strength that are tapped in pursuit of baseball. Even more surprising in a deeply patriarchal society is that women are a driving cultural force. Though Manipur has been closed to the outside world for 60 years, baseball delivers release from daily struggles, and a dream for healing a wounded society. Dreams chase reality when First Pitch, a small group of baseball-loving New Yorkers, and two Major League Baseball Envoy coaches team up with Manipuri men, women and children to "Play Ball."… Expand

Director: Mirra Bank

Genre(s): Sport, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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Ronnie Scheib

Jun 19, 2014

Banks allows the exhilaration of the game and the exigencies of realpolitik to determine the ups and downs of her film’s sentimental journey. Read full review

Daphne Howland

Jun 3, 2014

This film is like another work in the canon of baseball poetry. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jun 5, 2014

The history lesson is fascinating, and it’s nice to see an American export other than a Hollywood blockbuster engendering good will. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jun 19, 2014

A stirring ode to cultural bridge-building. Read full review

Barbara VanDenburgh

Mar 6, 2014

In spite of the compelling raw material in the lives of its ostensible subjects, it strikes out as an act of storytelling. Read full review

John DeFore

Jun 26, 2014

The movie doesn't really focus on many individuals long enough to make them compelling screen characters. Read full review

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