Strike Zone (2003)

Featuring cameos from numerous softball legends (including the late Kevin Herlihy), Strike Zone is a love-letter to the game from director and NZ under-16 pitcher Cameron Duncan. Duncan stars as a dying coach trying to motivate his team to win a key game. The messages of teamwork and not giving up are made more poignant by the many real-life parallels: during filming torrential rain turned the diamond into a quagmire, and Strike Zone's teen director, himself stricken by cancer, almost died on set, before going on to compere the film's premiere.

Released May 13, 2003 11 min None+

Genres: Drama, Short

Keywords: mdblist.one-actor, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.team, imdb.softball, imdb.death, imdb.cancer, imdb.terminal-illness + 5 more, imdb.teenage-boy, imdb.funeral, imdb.dead-boy, imdb.cup, imdb.coach