Baseball pitcher Dock Ellis had a controversial life and career, once pitching a no-hitter while high on LSD.
Release Date: September 5th, 2014
Not Yet Rated |1 hr 40 min
Plot SummaryBaseball pitcher Dock Ellis had a controversial life and career, once pitching a no-hitter while high on LSD.
Cast: Larry Demery, Dock Ellis, Ron Howard
Director: Jeff Radice
Genres: Documentary
Production Co: Arts & Labor, Baseball Iconoclasts
Larry DemeryDock Ellis
Ron HowardRadice has delivered an engaging portrait of a loose cannon back when professional sports still produced such unfiltered creatures, a man who lived by his own rules, said what he thought and wore curlers to practice when he felt like it. show more
The film is fine in depicting Ellis' times, but it's mostly how he came to realize that he had a serious problem and turned his life around to become a drug-abuse counselor. He died in 2008 at age 63. show more
The idea that documentarian Jeffrey Radice would make the episode both the hook and the opener for his film is to be expected — it’s an attention-grabbing story. But a hook is all it is. show more
