Synopsis
Where were you on that night?
Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
Game 6
2005 Directed by Michael Hoffman
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One of the most highly regarded contemporary American novelists, Don DeLillo examines language, technology, chaos, and violence in such novels as White Noise, Libra, and Underworld. Game 6, his only original screenplay, resembles DeLillo’s fiction through its treatment of the paranoia of urban America.
Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton) is a New York playwright with one big hit. He is hoping his new play will be a success but fears the reaction of critic Steven Schwimmer (Robert Downey, Jr.), known for his vicious reviews. Rogan’s life is further complicated by his separation from his wife, Lillian (Catherine O’Hara), the hostility of his daughter, Laurel (Ari Graynor), and the declining mental faculties of his father, Michael (Tom Aldredge). His play’s leading man…
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I was a huge Boston Red Sox fan growing up. One of dad's favorite players was Dwight (he played the dad in Hall Pass) Evans...so he became my favorite player as well. Well Evans was a Red Sox from 1974-1989. During the 1986 World Series they were within 1 strike of winning the title for the first time in almost 70 years. They however decided to break my and many others' hearts instead...as the Mets came back and won the game and won the series.
Game 6 stars Michael Keaton and Robert Downey, Jr and takes place before the game, during the game and after the game. Keaton is a playwrite...while Downey, Jr. is a critic. As we follow the…
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I guess technically this is a re-watch, although the first time I tried to watch this was off a junk DVD screener and I completely greened out before they even got to RDJ.
It's a film set in the world of New York theater that also walks and talks like a play, yet is totally cinematic in its own right. It's a small, contained story where nobody gets nuts, but you're still made dizzy as it moves along. It's a one-crazy-night story that starts a little before lunch, with a cast you want to see more of—the film runs only 87 minutes and you feel like you're only getting a few minutes with these people. More Griffin Dunne! More Catherine…
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What I like about this, is that it totally illustrates the delusion I will have while watching a replay or highlights of a game where my team loses (that includes the Red Sox and games between 1918 and 2004) where I still have a hope that they will win despite the reality of hindsight. There’s a lot to like about this: score by Yo La Tengo, Robert Downey Jr and Michael Keaton playing off each other, the footage and dramatization of Game 6 of 1986, and the fact that you can say “I already saw Birdman in 2005 when it was called Game 6.”
Seriously, Michael Keaton plays a playwrite this time on opening night of his comeback play on…
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“I’ve been talking to a prominent divorce lawyer.”
“How prominent?”
“He has his own submarine.”Written by the great Don DeLillo, starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr., and featuring music by Yo La Tengo, this unforgivably obscure film has finally been re-released on iTunes.
If you’re familiar with DeLillo’s work, in particular his lighter fare (read his short story Pafko at the Wall for thematic relevance), Game 6 goes down like a perfectly aged wine. It’s a beautiful meditation on the intersection of art and life through the point of view of someone deeply invested in both.
On the day of a big game day for the Red Sox, a playwright skips opening night of his own play, and…
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While it might not be wrong to say most of the interest I have in this comes from its clearly proto-Cosmopolis notions I think Hoffman tackled the challenge of using DeLillo;s language especially well outside of the beginning and ending (doing both in a way that is almost challenging the viewer 2 not love what they are seeing and hearing). While not as complete as End Zone in its discussion of sport (how could it be?) it is peak DeLillo (thusly peak writing) when this is the focus nonetheless as so much of his language and its repetitive, simple, and stated nature derives from games and their structures. Hoffman does not express everything that there is to express in this…
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Seeing this before reading a Delillo novel: "huh?"
Seeing this after reading a Delillo novel: "I get it
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A “lost gem” of sorts that hasn’t been available to rent since its release in 2006. Keaton and RDJ reportedly only took $100 per day as their salary so that the film could be made. And I understand why. The Don DeLillo script is so rich. His voice is so singular. While watching I had to look up what else he had written because the movie was reminding me of something I couldn’t put my finger on. When I found out he wrote Cosmopolis it all made complete sense. It’s crazy how Hoffman and Cronenberg are such wildly different directors, and yet their DeLillo movies are so similar. DeLillo’s writing doesn’t allow much room for auteurism. If it’s honored correctly…
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I'm glad this movie exists.
This is how it was made: www.theringer.com/movies/2020/7/6/21300934/game-6-movie-don-delillo-1986-world-series
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don’t ask me how i never knew that DON DELILLO WROTE A MOVIE STARRING MICHAEL KEATON because i’m disappointed in myself, but i’m ecstatic i watched it now. i have to be honest, i went in not wanting to like this. i wanted to believe that delillo wouldn’t be done justice even with a KILLER cast like this. i looked through michael hoffman’s filmography and was less than enthused (my ideal director choice for a don delillo work? terry gilliam. my ideal way that you kill me? trained bears tear me limb from limb). i was WRONG, and isn’t that beautiful?
look, there are some editing and directing issues i have (i’d have liked less emotion and less cutting), but…
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The Birdman of sports fandom without any of the malignant narcissism and pretentious directing of Inarritu. The dialogue can get a tad too Mamet-esque and indigestible in its thickness, but Keaton gives a compelling performance and early comeback Bob Downey Jr. shows up to provide some colorful support as an obsessive/reclusive theater critic. The film smartly and genuinely explores the psychological effect that the success and especially the failure of sports teams has on their respective cities and the lives within their community. A bit unpolished and televisual, yet worthwhile.