Yapım :2005 Ülke : Amerika Tür : Drama Süre : 120 dakika IMDB Puan : 6.5/10 IMDB ID: tt0388980
Oyuncular James Paxton - Young Harry Vardon Tom Rack - Black Top Hatted Man Armand Laroche - Black Top Hatted Man Peter Hurley - Black Top Hatted Man Gregory Terlecki - Black Top Hatted Man Jonathan Higgins - Embry Wallis Matthew Knight - Young Francis Ouimet Luke Askew - Alec Campbell Amanda Tilson - Young Sarah Wallis (as Amanda Tilson) Elias Koteas - Arthur Ouimet
Bilgi :After nearly three decades of playing indelible nutballs in films, Bill Paxton made a strong impression as a director with Frailty, a structurally flawed yet deeply weird B-picture. Expectations for his follow-up were high. Factor in a script by Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost, and rampant gonzohood seemed all but guaranteed. The biggest shock of the inspirational sports movie The Greatest Game Ever Played is how utterly square it is.
After an odd Scottish prologue, Frost's script (based on his 2002 book) focuses on the sainted by sports junkies 1913 U.S. Open, where dirt-poor teen caddie Francis Ouimet (The Battle of Shaker Heights' Shia LaBeouf, growing up nicely) took on British trick-shot master Harry Vardon, generally regarded as the best player in the world. The final results won't surprise anyone who's seen a movie before (Disney produced, after all), but there's a lot to be said for the delivery. The director occasionally jazzes up the visuals with newfangled special effects (one especially nice bit has Vardon wishing away his distractions to a featureless limbo), but otherwise seems deeply committed to honoring the time period, with a sincere gee-whiz approach to the material. With his wide-eyed approach, the film's title seems less immodest, and more factual.
Family films have a way of attracting critical guff, but the old corn still sometimes has a place. Barring the occasional ripple (Elias Koteas, as Ouimet's stubborn coal-miner father, seems to have wandered in from a Bob and Doug McKenzie sketch), Paxton has fashioned an all-ages movie with an admirable lack of pretense. Way to avoid the sophomore slump, Bill, but don't be afraid to let your freak flag fly in the future.
