Bottom of the 9th

Every player has a past.

A tragic mistake lands a 19-year-old rising baseball talent in jail for two decades before his burgeoning professional baseball career even gets off the ground. Now, at 39 and fresh out of prison, he works to win back his respect, his family, his lost love and his dream of having a professional baseball career.

111 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence).
Drama, On the art circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Joe Manganiello, Sofia Vergara, Michael Rispoli, Denis O'Hare
Director	Raymond De Felitta
Screenplay	Robert Bruzio
Music	Stephen Endelman
Cinematography	Barry Markowitz
Editing	David Leonard
Made in	2019
Produced by	Off the Chart Entertainment, 3:59, Golden Engine Pictures

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama
Language	Moderate to strong impact crude language occurs frequently and is sustained throughout the film in the context of swearing, insults and agressive exchanges.
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Visual depictions of violence resulting in noticeable effects such as injuries, blood-letting and even death appear fairly frequently and is of a strong impact.
Prejudice	The film contains infrequent low impact prejudice in the form of discrimination from other characters towards the main character because he was in prison for murder.
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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USA MPAA rating

R: Restricted	Rated R for language throughout and some violence.
Runtime	111
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 15 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Metacritic.com 7 critics	12
Rottentomatoes critics 13 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer	14
CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Likable, low-key baseball drama has violence, language.	10
What the People say
Rottentomatoes users 12 users	16
Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter	18
IMDB 215 Netizens	10
The Movie DB Community	14
Average .. 66%	13