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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PERKINS,ANTHONY
EAN: 9780792186847
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792186842
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 04, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 35623
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Jim Piersall is groomed by his loving but hard-driving father (living vicariously through his son) to play major league baseball. His desire to succeed to please his father leads to mental illness and a nervous breakdown. Can he overcome those difficulties and return to the major leagues?
Amazon.com:
From its early scenes of a young Jimmy Piersall literally suffering his father's abusive determination that the boy should play baseball, Robert Mulligan's 1957 Fear Strikes Out becomes more about mental health than love of the game. But this is a compelling drama about the real-life Piersall's gradual breakdown one season before a national audience, the legacy of his domineering dad's overbearing ways. (Karl Malden plays Piersall's father.) Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) brings his usual, civilized mix of poignancy and dramatic urgency to the proceedings, keeping any viewer (sports fan or not) involved. Perkins looks out of place on the field and is meant to appear that way; his fragility and intensity underscore the sad tale of Piersall's woes. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great movie, great acting by all...
I was very satisfied by everyone's performances in this film. Anthony Perkins plays Jimmy Piersall, a player for the Boston Red Sox, who suffers a breakdown and mental illness after his father, played by Karl Malden, pushes him to the brink. He ends up in a hospital and must rediscover himself and how he got there, where he will go next. He also must face his father again. I don't know the other actors' and actresses' names, but all are excellent. This is a movie about ambition, tragedy, and ultimate ... Read More
Rating: - Demons on the Diamond
This is not supposed to happen in professional sports, with our heroes who wear the uniforms of our home team....right?
Director Robert Mulligan tackles what remains a delicate issue, mental illness - bipolar disorder - of an athlete, in this 1957 release based on the nervous breakdown of Boston Red Sox player Jimmy Piersall and his struggle to get back to the major leagues while confronting his personal demons.
Anthony Perkins portrays Piersall and Karl Malden turns in an outstanding ... Read More
Rating: - Chiling and revealing.
Anthony Perkins does an incredible job of portraying someone with bi-polar disorder. If I were in charge of the Academy Awards I would have given him the oscar for this role. His acting was phenomenal. The movie is very serious. It is well done and they treat the subject matter of Jimmy Pearsal's illness very delicately. It is an excellent movie, however, not one for a happy-go-lucky evening. It is more for a serious evening. The only flaw I saw in the movie is that they never portrayed the more entertaining ... Read More
Rating: - Tense and dramatic from beginning to end
Both Perkins and Malden turn in possibly the greatest performances of their illustrious careers in this story of the gifted but troubled center fielder. Perkins is truly brilliant in the role, and its hard to imagine anyone at this point who could have done a better job in the role. Maldon is relentless as the overbearing sports dad, who does love his son and wants him to do well, but whose love is truly a two-edged sword. The rest of the cast is excellent as well, the movie has a fine script, and the film is taughtly ... Read More
Rating: - Makes you think twice
Excellent movie for all parents with children playing
any sport to watch.
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