One of the chief culprits is Billy Burrell (Gary Cole), a camp guard who also turns out to be a minor league-ball player.Īs you can probably guess, it builds to a big showdown on the baseball diamond, though the game doesn't feel quite as dramatic as it probably should. Those frustrations eventually spill out when Lyle and his family are confronted with racism from the surrounding community. This fictionalization follows members of the Nomura family, who ran a successful East Los Angeles business before the start of World War II.įamily patriarch Kaz Nomura (Masatoshi Nakamura) is determined to make the best of the trying circumstances, but his youngest son, Lyle (Aaron Yoo), is frustrated about losing his baseball scholarship and his freedom. "Pastime" is loosely based on the stories of people who were interned at the Topaz Relocation Center in Abraham, Utah.
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The baseball scenes may be the weakest aspect of "American Pastime." But fortunately, this locally filmed feature is as much a historical drama as a sports drama.Īnd the historical elements - particularly those that deal with Japanese internment camps during World War II - definitely make the movie worthwhile.
AMERICAN PASTIME - *** - Aaron Yoo, Gary Cole, Masatoshi Nakamura with English subtitles (Japanese dialects) rated PG (violence, profanity, racial epithets, vulgarity).
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