Release Date: September 5th, 2014
Not Yet Rated|1 hr 40 min
Plot Summary
Baseball pitcher Dock Ellis had a controversial life and career, once pitching a no-hitter while high on LSD.
Director: Jeff Radice
Genres: Documentary
Production Co: Arts & Labor, Baseball Iconoclasts
Distributors: The Orchard
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
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
Radice 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
