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EEPHUS Trailer: One of the Best Baseball Movies Arrives in March

Carson Lund's EEPHUS

There’s no better movie to arrive in early spring like Carson Lund’s Eephus. The Cannes and NYFF hit is a phenomenal baseball movie for anyone with a deep love of the classic American sport/pastime. Set in a baseball field in 1990s Massachusetts, the film follows a group of middle-aged men who play one more game in their beloved ball park before its demolition. The packed ensemble includes Uncut Gems actors Keith William Richards and Wayne Diamond, along with Cliff Blake, Ray Hryb, Stephen Radochia, David Pridemore, David Torres Jr., and Pete Minkarah. Lund co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Basta and Nate Fisher. The three also serve as producers alongside Lund’s Omnes Films partner Tyler Taormina and David Entin. Ahead of its March release, Music Box Films has rolled out the official trailer.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America’s eternal pastime. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away.

Eephus opens in select theaters March 7, before expanding nationwide. See the trailer and poster below.

EEPHUS Official Poster

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M.J. O'Toole began writing for HtN in early 2021 during the Sundance Film Festival. An NYC native and lifelong cinephile, his favorite films include Chungking Express, The Three Colors Trilogy, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Lovers on the Bridge, and Midnight Cowboy. He is the Digital Marketing Manager for the agency 3rd Impression - working alongside Editor-at-large Matt Delman - that specializes in digital marketing for independent film. He holds a BA from Adelphi University and a Masters in Digital Photography from the School of Visual Arts. You can check out his portrait and street photography on Instagram.

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