Quite a good film, though the story it is based on is so transcendentally wonderful that there's something perverse about making a movie out of it. Astonishingly, whoever wrote the closed captions didn't look at the story on the page! The final scene in which the dying man's mind takes him to a boyhood episode in which another boy makes a grammatical mistake, saying that shortstop "is the best position they is", and as he fades out of existence he hears "they is, they is, they is". But the cc-writer puts "the years, the years, the years", which makes no sense in the context and destroys the delicacy of the ending.
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