EEPHUS WITH Q AND A

AUGUST 8

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day. Named for a rare pitch, this poignant comedy is an ode to sports, community, and the passage of time.

A grand-slam upon it's Rhode Island premiere this Spring at the JPT, Eephus has earned legions of fans on the festival/screening circuit, and boasts an ultra-impressive 100% Rotten Tomatoes score on 75+ critical reviews! This screening features a post-film Q&A with director Carson Lund and cast members TBD!

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. Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away.

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