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Directed by: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Nick Nolte, Trevor Morgan, Timothy Hutton and Sally Kirkland
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes
Rating: "R" by the MPAA

Synopsis

OFF THE BLACK is a coming-of-age story of teenager Dave Tibbel (Morgan) who copes with his own distant father (Hutton) by forming an unlikely friendship with a disheveled, irascible high school umpire, Ray Cooke (Nolte). As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks Dave to go to his 40th high school reunion and pretend to be his son, a benevolent act of deception that winds up opening unexpected dimensions in the two men.

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