Delillo's Game 6

[Keith Davis]

It’s not bad. I have a DVD. Maybe I’ll watch it again tonight.

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> On Jul 8, 2020, at 7:42 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> LOL....
> 
> Reminds me of why Waiting for Godot failed utterly in Miami, the first
> theater which
> performed it in the US. Fact.
> 
> Marketed as a laugh riot, lol.
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:39 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It was released in 15 theatres America-wide and was apparently pretty
>> good. Part of the problem was that they marketed it as a sports movie
>> when it's really about an embittered New York playwright.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:31 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So does "production difficulties" mean they made a very shitty movie out
>> of it---
>>> or they thought they did--so they "remaindered" it pre-emptively to give
>> Keaton
>>> some of the pocket change they owed him?
>>> 
>>> Because if they had a good movie, they would have released it to
>> overcome some
>>> of the expenses under "production difficulties".
>>> 
>>> Unless there were ownership clashes. Ask Orson Welles about the latter.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:13 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I didn't know Don Delillo wrote a screenplay that was produced as a
>>>> feature film. Apparently a bunch of production difficulties meant that
>>>> the release was very small, but it did star Michael Keaton, Robert
>>>> Downey Jr., Catherine O’Hara, Bebe Neuwirth, Ari Graynor and Griffin
>>>> Dunne.
>>>> 
>> https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/7/6/21300934/game-6-movie-don-delillo-1986-world-series
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