Attn, Detroit-Area Reason Fans: Check Out Home Run Showdown, a Film Written by Tim Cavanaugh

Nick Gillespie | 7.28.2012 11:53 AM

Reason's Tim Cavanaugh has co-written a movie called Home Run Showdown, which is premiering today in Detroit, Michigan.

Watch a trailer above and go here for times.

Here's the flick's official site.

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sage 13 years ago

Can we look forward to a review by Herpes "Alan" Vanneman?
1. Episiarch 13 years ago
  
  Hey! Alan's viral load is way down. That's a good thing. Why can't you be happy for him?
  1. sage 13 years ago
    
    But we can't get rid of him, and he keeps coming back. It's difficult to be happy about that.
    1. Episiarch 13 years ago
      
      Just like the griefers. But at least the infestation has been crushed to manageable levels.
      1. sage 13 years ago
        
        It seems like it. No more 1000+ comment threads on the weekend. What a mess those were.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

If Cavanaugh has been writing this thing (which, as far as I can tell, has little to nothing to do with California high speed rail) then has Reason been getting his full devotion? I don't think so.
1. General Butt Naked 13 years ago
  
  I think as registered Reason commenters we should be concerned that we aren't getting full value from our (nonexistent) commenting dollars.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    Time is money, and I spend a considerable amount propping this place up.
Hugh Akston 13 years ago

Hey you guys, Dean Cain is still alive.
1. Old Mexican 13 years ago
  
  Hey you guys, Dean Cain is still alive.
  
  Uh-oh... I better change that Wikipedia entry I did, then.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

Why Detroit, Tim? Was the Multiplex in the Great Pit of Carkoon already booked?

Seriously, though, when will this be making it to Cinefamily or one of the other SoCal indy screens? I'd like to come down and see it.
Heroic Mulatto 13 years ago

Please, please, please tell me that this glurge was written purely for the money (? la Louisa May Alcott), please?

I don't want to live in a world where this was an earnest endeavour.
joshua corning 13 years ago

Someone has to say it:

The Bad News Bears.
1. Caleb Turberville 13 years ago
  
  Cavanaugh has had "Objectivist Bad News Bears" scribbled on his legal pad for years now, but he just needed Dean Cain and Matthew Lillard to make it work.
2. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
  
  Good for Cavanaugh. But yeah, I'm getting a Bad News Bears vibe from this as well. Of course, I'll shell out some money to see it, just to represent.
Paul. 13 years ago

I'm confused. Which one is Tim Cavanaugh?
1. johnl 13 years ago
  
  This looks autobiographical.
Tim Cavanaugh 13 years ago

Thanks, Nick for this kind announcement and everybody else for kind words.

We opened last night to a sold-out theater at the AMC Star Southfield 20.

We're opening at the AMC in Ontario Mills, CA Friday.

The Ontario Mills opening will include a tie-in Home Run Showdown Kids Derby at a San Bernardino-area field. Check site, Facebook or Twitter for date and time.

Home Run Showdown will open in other cities through August, and most openings will feature a Kids Derby ? a newly invented competition that tests kids' skills in hitting, catching and handling infield flies. Cash prizes will be awarded.

The Detroit Kids Derby went gangbusters. Cash prizes were awarded.

Home Run Showdown is a live-action movie suitable for the whole family. It is neither dark nor edgy, nor is it a reboot. Laugh, cry, go home hummin' with Home Run Showdown.
1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
  
  We're opening at the AMC in Ontario Mills, CA Friday.
  
  Sweet. I'll be there. Any other SoCal Reasonoids want to meet up, throw down a couple, and heckle the movie? 😉
  1. johnl 13 years ago
    
    If the times work out, I'll bring some little leaguers. I had already planned to take the day off to go to the optometrist so the kids are ready with new glasses for school fall ball.
2. joshua corning 13 years ago
  
  nor is it a reboot.
  
  Bad News Bears.
  
  Anyway if French love stories that end with the woman killing herself because she is "too in love" can be a genre then I don't see why little league underdog team with a fat kid, a tom boy and spunky short kid movies can't be as well.
  1. Paul. 13 years ago
    
    And underage drinking! Which gives the movie its subversive libertarian plot. Wonder how tim slipped that past the producers? As for the fat kid, maybe you missed the memo, jc, bit there's this obesity crisis going on, so that makes the movie topical. Surely there's a gay kid and a muslim kid, right, Tim? You went for the post-Bush trifecta...right?
joshua corning 13 years ago

WOOT!!!

Check it out:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3972422/
johnl 13 years ago

We should write his bio. I'll write 1650-1800 if someone else can get the rest.

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