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Long Gone (1987) (TV)
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23 May 1987 (USA)
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Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell...
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Great baseball movie!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| William Petersen | ... | Cecil 'Stud' Cantrell (as William L. Petersen) | |
| Virginia Madsen | ... | Dixie Lee Boxx | |
| Dermot Mulroney | ... | Jamie Weeks | |
| Larry Riley | ... | Joe Louis Brown | |
| Katy Boyer | ... | Esther Wrenn | |
| Henry Gibson | ... | Hale Buchman | |
| Teller | ... | Hale Buchman, Jr. | |
| Robert Easton | ... | Cletis Ramey | |
| Panchito Gómez | ... | Paco Izquierdo | |
| David Langston Smyrl | ... | Monroe Wright | |
| Guich Koock | ... | Bump Klein | |
| Arthur Rosenberg | ... | Peaches Cluff | |
| Will Zahrn | ... | Knucksie Chappell | |
| Edward Blatchford | ... | Whiz Whsonant | |
| Joel Murray | ... | Bart Polanski |
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Stogies (USA) (alternative title)
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110 min
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Teller, who famously never speaks in his "Penn and Teller" performances, has a speaking role in this film. He was cast because of his resemblance to Henry Gibson (they play father and son in the film).
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Continuity: When Joe Brown and Stud are destroying the car at the end of the movie, Joe Brown smashes the drivers side window. In a subsequent shot, the window is intact.
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Esther Wrenn:
We're both going to have to pray much harder.
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How this movie only warranted an HBO premiere and not a theatrical run is astounding. Before "Bull Durham" or "Major League," "Long Gone" is the ultimate tale of "down on their luck baseball team turns things around." I know, it's been done a dozen times, but I love this movie.
Yes, the clichés are all there: "coulda been a star" fading veteran, his love interest, the doe-eyed rookie, the guy who can't get a break, the losing streak, and all that, but this film still works. The dialogue is crisp, the characters are very sharp, and the 1950s setting of the movie is great, shades of a simpler time when base ball was just a "boys game" like the main character Stud Cantrell (played by CSI's William Peterson) says, where "you hit the ball, you run like hell."
The movie touches on real issues from the time as well: premarital sex, racism, and the the like, but never gets preachy. And the ending to the "big game" is one of the more unique I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot of them). The soundtrack is great, featuring gospel, honky-tonk, and some classic Hank Williams.
It's not Shakespeare, just a fun romp with a great cast and a great story. Highly recommended!