The Boys of Sunset Ridge (2001)

The lives of 4 men are played out through the game of golf.

Director:

Doug McKeon

Writer:

Doug McKeon

Stars:

Burt Young, Ronny Cox, John Heard

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Burt Young	...	Hank Bartlowski
Ronny Cox	...	Ben Thorpe
John Heard	...	John Burroughs
Pat Morita	...	Charlie Watanabe
John Ventimiglia	...	Hank Bartlowski at 33
Lee Tergesen	...	Ben Thorpe at 33
Brian Tochi	...	Charlie Watanabe at 33
T. Scott Cunningham	...	John Burroughs at 33
Chad Aaron	...	Hank Bartlowski at 13
Dan McCabe	...	Ben Thorpe at 13
Raviv Ullman	...	John Burroughs at 13 (as Ricky Ullman)
Kentaro Yoshida	...	Charlie Watanabe at 13
Jeff Brooks	...	Richard Belfry-Marshall
Katy Hansz	...	Miss Ginger Rivers
Jack Gilpin	...	Simon Longfellow

Storyline

The lives of 4 men are played out through the game of golf.

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Plot Keywords:

golf | friendship | adultery | infidelity | embezzlement | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language and sexual references

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 March 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ta agoria tou Sunset Ridge

Company Credits

Production Co:

Go Film, Sunset Ridge Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Excuse me while I puke blood!

One of this sickeningly sweet , "seems like old times" , friends forever nostalgic films that's tells a story you've seen a million times before. I mean for a start John Heard is not, by any stretch of the imagination anywhere near as old as Pat Morrita or Ronny Cox so that requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. It is pretty much standard fair until the old man section at the end where our principal characters have all entered the twilight of their lives and become "The Golden Boys". That requires the acting heavyweights (Heard, Young, Cox and Morrita) of the cast to enter the setup and that's where it also starts to think its important. Full of Heard narrating everything and the characters , one by one, fading out on the golf course, indicating that they are all dead. Its all so damn generic. The way they all become successful as well. It has to tie up every loose end so damn perfectly. Like as soon as the Young character makes his money he dies in a car crash just after being told "life just wasn't a challenge for him after he became rich." And just before the Morrita character dies we are told that he had just retired from teaching and then become some mega successful writer. The actual end to the film is what led me to use my chosen title. It involves the central character's grand kids spreading Heard's ashes and talking some clichéd garbage about friendship. Please. We get the point already. Stop frickin underlining everything. To sum the film up put it this way.....its the kind of thing Alan Alda usually shows up in. He must have been sick that week or something.