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When a Butterfly Falls

A crippled retired pitcher attends the All Star festivities to play in an old timers' game and to pick up the pieces of his shattered life.

A crippled former Astro pitcher, HANK BREWER, 38, attends the All Star festivites in Houston to pitch in the old timers' game and to pitch his way back into baseball. There, he finds memories of his accident and of his wife's death still painful. He tries to drown those memories in alcohol.

He also meets JANET HALLEY, 30, a City liaison to the games, and Janet's nine year old son, who has recently lost his father (her husband) to cancer.

Hank finds that life is not a game. And he must "step up to the plate" if he is to redeem his shattered life and find love and fulfillment in the city where it all began.

Script Excerpt
Written by:
Format:
Screenplay
Budget:
Low
Starring Roles For:
Jake Gyllenhaal
Amy Adams
Samuel L. Jackson
In the Vein Of:
Field of Dreams
The Natural
The Upside of Anger
Posted:
11/01/2009
Updated:
08/01/2019
Author Bio:
If life is a three act drama, screenwriting is my fifth act. Born in Charleston South Carolina, I received my undergraduate degree in history from Univ. of South Carolina, magna cum laude. I graduated from two of the nation's best med schools -- a J.D. from Duke and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins. This was my poetry phase with 100 poems published in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.

In my next act, I taught at the University of Texas.

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