American Pastime (2007)
American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their everyday lives, they remained loyal to the United States and ironically turned to that most American of sports - baseball - as a way to deal with their plight.
- Date of release
- 2007-05-11
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Desmond Nakano
Casting
- Gary Cole — Billy Burrell
- Leonardo Nam — Lane Nomura
- Aaron Yoo — Lyle Nomura
- Masatoshi Nakamura — Kaz Nomura
- Judy Ongg — Emi Nomura
- Jon Gries — Ed Tully
- Susanna Thompson — Shirley Burrell
- Seth Sakai — Nori Morita
- Sarah Drew — Katie Burrell
- Olesya Rulin — Cathy Reyes
- Carleton Bluford — Lester Johnson
- Sami Roe — Jimmy Gomey
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Utah
American Pastime is a 2007 American Sports drama film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah prison camp which held thousands of people during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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