2005 American film
Game 6 ( stylized as Game6 ) is a 2005 American film directed by Michael Hoffman, first base presented at the Sundance Film Festival, released in the United States in 2006, and starring Michael Keaton. It follows a fabricated dramatist, Nicky Rogan, on the day he has a fresh stagecoach maneuver opening which is besides the same day as the one-sixth crippled of the 1986 World Series is played. It realizes a 1991 screenplay by Don DeLillo, with a soundtrack written and performed by Yo La Tengo .

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Nicky Rogan has written respective plays and has achieved achiever. It ‘s now opening night of his latest attempt and everyone around him assure him that this one will be the best yet. But as opening hour approaches, Rogan falls prey to doubts and fears, egged on by another dramatist whose last sour was trashed by the local newspaper ‘s new drama critic, Steven Schwimmer. He finally lets those fears drive him to resolve to kill the critic ( who he assumes will besides trash his play ) and he procures a pistol with which to perform the act. rather of attending the play ‘s opening night, Rogan spends prison term in a barroom, accompanied by a dame cab driver and her grandson ; earlier in the even she misidentified Rogan as a local, nickel-and-dime hood but he does n’t correct her misidentification.

They watch the crucial Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets. The Sox have won 3 games and could clinch the title by winning Game 6 but Rogan, a lifelong Sox fan, knows how easily the team can lose when they should win. He spends the evening waiting for the inevitable, even though the Sox are leading most of the time. When the inevitable does occur ( due to an unexpected pair of errors at the goal of the final examination inning ), he snaps and leaves to take out his rage on the newspaper critic. Rogan not only finds the critic but sees him in the early stages of deflowering the dramatist ‘s daughter. He begins firing wildly and is ultimately calmed when he learns the critic is evenly devastated by the Sox ‘s personnel casualty. They end up together, watching an endless rerun of the final error by Bill Buckner on a little television receiver set in the critic ‘s apartment.

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The film was made as an independent campaign, largely as a labor of love, with all the “ name ” players working for small more than scale ( Keaton ‘s wage was $ 100/day, for exemplify ). Filming was completed in 20 days, and the filming budget was $ 500,000. Most of the film occurred in New York City.

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As of June 2020, the film holds a 60 % approval denounce on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews with an average rat of 5.98/10. The web site ‘s critics consensus reads : “ Though packed with Don DeLillo ‘s witty dialogue and bolstered by solid performances, particularly by head Michael Keaton, Game 6 besides suffers from uneven direction and distraught symbolism. ” [ 1 ] Leonard Maltin gave the film two and a half stars, describing it as “ a writer ’ south film if there ever was one ”. [ 2 ]

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