This is the best of four good films made by the American director John Hancock (the others are Let's Scare Jessica to Death, California Dreaming, and Baby Blue Marine), none of which have been widely seen on this side of the Atlantic. The reason here is fairly obvious, for the theme is baseball. But the playing of Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro sweeps aside all sentiment attached to the theme of a dying baseball player, makes the most of the script's moments of abrasive humour and generally raises the film far above the average weepie, into the class reached by the classic TV film Brian's Song.

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