- Release Date: 2007
- Runtime: 105 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Aaron Yoo, Olesya Rulin, Carlton Bluford, Sami Roe ... see all
- Director: Desmond Nakano
- Plot: American Pastime is a 2007 film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah camp which housed thousands of people during the Japanese American internment during World War II.... Read more
User Reviews
Overall it was okay.
Feb 16, 2009
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Feb 16, 2009resonant_thunder - yahoo.com
I mean it really could have been much better but it also could have been musch worse. The acting was OKAY i guess, not really convinving at all times. But the movie had a good story line and in the end... Full review
Critics Reviews
| May 30, 2007PopMatters
Nakano, Nakagawa, Rosenbush and others went to great lengths to ensure that "American Pastime" remained historically accurate and honest in its personal characterizations.
But the movie is also deeply personal to the filmmakers.
... Full Review
| Apr 13, 2007Deseret News
the movie worthwhile....Nakamura is appropriately dignified as Lyle and Lane's father....The solid supporting cast.... ... Full Review
filmcritic.com
Still, American Pastime has much to recommend it.....would certainly appreciate the film's pivotal baseball subplot....the film looks great..... ... Full Review
News
California's Japanese Americans loved their baseball, even behind barbed wire
sacbee.com –
2008-07-10
In the strawberry fields of pre-World War II Florin, a budding baseball star toiled, one of a family of 12. From the moment of birth, Yosh Tsukamoto's destiny would never reach the major leagues, no matter if his batting average ... Full Article
American Pastime Presents the Story of a Japanese American Family's Relocation to an Internment Camp
associatedcontent.com –
2007-07-04
American Pastime is set during World War II and is the story of a Japanese American family's relocation to an internment camp. Revolving around baseball, jazz, and family, it is a good-hearted movie that tells a wonderful tale but at... ... Full Article
'Provoked,' 'American Pastime,' 'Duck'
calendarlive.com –
2007-05-11
Based on the true story of an abused woman whose fight to overturn a murder conviction helped change the way victims of domestic violence are treated under British law, "Provoked" wheedles so relentlessly on its heroine's behalf that by the... ... Full Article
American Pastime
lacitybeat.com –
2007-05-10
Following Pearl Harbor, the Nomura family is shipped from East L.A. to Utah's Topaz Relocation Center, along with 8,000 other Americans of Japanese ancestry. Younger brother Lyle (Aaron Yoo), whose detention costs him a baseball scholarship, falls for the daughter... ... Full Article
American Pastime
deseretnews.com –
2007-04-13
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. ... Full Article

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