**Spoilers** This is basically a decent movie, but it's played out in a very maudlin manner. Joking and kidding around, essential for dealing with problems great and small, are made to appear childish and immature. Moriarty's Wiggen is content only when he succeeds in getting his teammates to stop their ribbing of De Niro's Pearson. Man, if I was dying, I would feel REALLY depressed when the folks around me stopped joking. I would have liked to seen the same story told with the traditional pranks playing a part in making the country boy catcher feel a part of the team, instead of his being shielded by his misguided friend.
Review of Bang the Drum Slowly
