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16 April 2000 (USA) morePlot:
When an 11 year old boy (Michael Schiffman) gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ossie Davis | ... | Buck McHenry | |
| Ruby Dee | ... | Mrs. Henry | |
| Ernie Banks | ... | Ollie Johnson | |
| Michael Schiffman | ... | Jason Ross | |
| Duane McLaughlin | ... | Aaron Henry | |
| Megan Bowes | ... | Kim Axelrod | |
| Kevin Jubinville | ... | Chuck Axelrod | |
| Michael Rhoades | ... | Jim Davis | |
| Karl Pruner | ... | Mr. Ross | |
| Catherine Blythe | ... | Mrs. Ross | |
| Don Dickinson | ... | Coack Barker | |
| Marcello Meleca | ... | Tug | |
| James Millington | ... | Brad (as Jim Millington) | |
| Anthony Antonacci | ... | Joey Kovich | |
| J.J. Gallo | ... | Carl Diaz |
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`Finding Buck McHenry' is a strange film. It has all of the trappings of a low-budget ABC `Afternoon Special.' Its performances are wildly uneven. Ossie Davis gives a memorable performance as Mac Henry, the school custodian whom young Jason Ross (played by Michael Schiffman) is convinced is the fictional former Negro League baseball legend Buck McHenry. But Schiffman and the most of the rest of the cast give poor performances. Ruby Dee, Davis' real life wife, plays his movie mate, and has little to do. All of this is a bit surprising since Charles Burnett, who helmed the critically acclaimed `To Sleep with Anger," directed the film
But the movie does an excellent job of conveying the racism faced by the Negro League players, and doesn't reveal until the end whether Henry is McHenry.
Three problems with the plot: McHenry supposedly had three great seasons in the Negro League before disappearing after a brush with the law, and yet was named to its hall of fame. Hall of famers in almost any sport must have a much longer track record than that. Secondly, if Henry is McHenry, he supposedly had been in hiding for 50 years after his brush with the law, even though the movie acknowledges that his `crime' would have long ago been forgotten. Finally, the film wants us to believe that a baseball fanatic like Jason would never have heard of the Negro League, which I find unlikely.