Fear Strikes Out
by Robert Mulligan
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Actor: Adam Williams, Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Perry WilsonDirector: Robert Mulligan
Brand: Team Marketing
Cinematographer: Haskell B. Boggs
Editor: Aaron Stell
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Al Hirshberg
Writer: Jimmy Piersall
Writer: Raphael Blau
Writer: Ted Berkman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
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Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this on tv when I was a boy. It gave me a better understanding of where I was headed as a player.
Summary of Fear Strikes Out
Jim Piersall is groomed by his loving but hard-driving father (living vicariously through his son) to play major league baseball. His desire to succeed to please his father leads to mental illness and a nervous breakdown. Can he overcome those difficulties and return to the major leagues?From its early scenes of a young Jimmy Piersall literally suffering his father's abusive determination that the boy should play baseball, Robert Mulligan's 1957 Fear Strikes Out becomes more about mental health than love of the game. But this is a compelling drama about the real-life Piersall's gradual breakdown one season before a national audience, the legacy of his domineering dad's overbearing ways. (Karl Malden plays Piersall's father.) Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) brings his usual, civilized mix of poignancy and dramatic urgency to the proceedings, keeping any viewer (sports fan or not) involved. Perkins looks out of place on the field and is meant to appear that way; his fragility and intensity underscore the sad tale of Piersall's woes. --Tom Keogh
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