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Fastball
“The game is played in the blink of an eye.”
7.2 / 10• 2016• 1h 27m•NR• English
Documentary
Storyline
Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.
Cast & Crew
Kevin Costner
Narrator
Lead
Hank Aaron
Self (archive footage)
Nolan Ryan
Self (archive footage)
Derek Jeter
Self
DS
Denard Span
Self
CK
Craig Kimbrel
Self (archive footage)
JV
Justin Verlander
Self (archive footage)
BH
Bryce Harper
Self (archive footage)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jonathan Hock's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Fastball is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
