Eephus

Grown men's recreational baseball game stretches to extra innings on their beloved field's final day before demolition. Humor and nostalgia intertwine as daylight fades, signaling an era's end. (NR, 98 min.)
Open caption screening on 3/26 @ 4:30 pm and 4/2 @ 4:30 pm.

Showtimes

Monday, March 24, 2025

4:30 PM 7:00 PM

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

5:00 PM 7:30 PM

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

4:30 PM 7:30 PM

Thursday, March 27, 2025

5:00 PM 7:30 PM

Friday, March 28, 2025

5:00 PM 7:30 PM

Saturday, March 29, 2025

12:00 PM 2:30 PM 5:00 PM 7:30 PM

Sunday, March 30, 2025

2:00 PM

Monday, March 31, 2025

4:30 PM 7:00 PM

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

4:00 PM

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

4:30 PM

Thursday, April 3, 2025

5:00 PM 7:30 PM

Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America’s eternal pastime. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away. [Music Box Films]

Starring: Frederick Wiseman, Bill Lee, Keith William Richards
Director: Carson Lund
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sports

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"A modest but poignant hangout film that resonates long after the last pitch."
— Tim Grierson, Screen International

"Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title."
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

"Its pearls of practical wisdom and jewels of melancholic wit make Eephus a gem, which is fitting, for a movie about a game played on a diamond."
— Jessica Kiang, Variety

"The film’s only villain is the passage of time, and its protagonists are simply facing the unpleasant realization that their era is ending sooner than their lifespans."
— Christian Zilko, IndieWire

"With a gentle yet rigorous vision, Eephus coalesces into a reflective study of nostalgia: both for a game that has evolved and for a certain kind of American social life that is dwindling as fast as the sun fades."
— Jordan Raup, The Film Stage

"Eephus belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ambitions but because it understands what the game has meant and still means in small towns, among average people and weekend players."
— Ty Burr, Washington Post

"It dwells in some languid liminal space between hangout movie and elegy, a tribute to the community institutions that hold us together, that introduce us to one another and that, in an age of optimized life choices and disappearing public spaces, are slowly fading away."
— Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times