Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story

October. 01,2010 R

Rating：

4.8

Genre：

Comedy

Keywords：

Mockumentary

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Trailer Synopsis Cast

Story takes place during the MLB strike of 1994 when the nation turned its eyes to the sport of wiffleball. We follow the the pursuit of Ted Whitfield as he tries to break the homerun and his subsequent battles with substance abuse.

Ross Patterson as Ted 'The Wiffler' Whitfield

Joey Kern as Willie 'High-Sox' Hamilton

Christine Lakin as Kiki Hamilton

Alanna Ubach as Kristy Kittens

Richard Gant as Paps 'Pure Plastic' Patterson

Edi Patterson as Fran Whitfield

Nick Thune as Petey Sinclair

Louise Linton as Shannon Storm

Jaime Bergman as Kim Dominguez

Gregory Sims as Fan #1

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Reviews

Actuakers

2010/10/01

One of my all time favorites.

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LouHomey

2010/10/02

From my favorite movies..

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Portia Hilton

2010/10/03

Blistering performances.

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Allison Davies

2010/10/04

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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thepotatoHasEyes

2010/10/05

This movie is almost unheard of, such an underrated comedy, probably not for everyone, but, I am glad i stumbled onto it. I watch it over and over, and every time I laugh out loud. It is a little known treasure, it IS that dumb humor that most people don't get...seriously funny. The story of a Wiffle(how you say} ball champion and his rise to fame, along with his best friend and fellow wiffle baller. it's off beat and, to me , funnier than dodgeball, but in the same humor vein. I don't know what else to say about it other than if you like comedies, you should really give this a chance, it should be on my re-watcher list because i watch this at least once a month. "scrunchy bits , scrunchy bits" ... just plain funny...to me.

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