Fastpitch (2000) User Reviews

Let's see more personal stories like this

[RJ-15 · 8/10 · 5 March 2002]

With the advent of all the low cost, high quality, digital cameras, you'd think you could find more films, of this quality, available to the general public.

This is the story of the director's life on the fast-pitch softball tour for a year, and it is a pretty humorous slice of life, tinged with sadness. Very good quality digital filming (best viewed on the DVD copy, I feel), editing, and story-telling. This is a movie for any one involved with a local, non-professional sports team of any type. Great job by the director, and it helps flesh out a comedy/drama film that was in production around the same time, "THE MARKSMEN".

An interesting look at a small bit of Americana

[hitchcockkelly · 6/10 · 27 January 2023]

It was interesting. It'd make a good double bill with "A League of Ordinary Gentlemen", a documentary about three Internet millionaires who try to revive pro bowling. That was a little better than this. While there is also an ambitious millionaire in "Fastpitch", he's not the story. Most of the story focuses on Shane Hunuhunu, a New Zealander who is the closest thing softball has to Babe Ruth. He was an interesting guy, but focusing on him limited the scope of the picture. The bowling documentary was about reviving an entire sport. "Fastpitch" is more like a personal travel diary. Still, it was an interesting look at a heartland sport which is on the wane.