PROLOGUE
Night Game is a 1989 American crime thriller filmed in Galveston and Houston, Texas. It stars Roy Scheider as a detective who must solve a series of murders. Released on September 15, 1989 by Epic Productions, the film was written by Spencer Eastman and directed by Peter Masterson.
PLOT
A number of young women are found dead on or around the beaches of Galveston and the one thing they all have in common is that they were murdered when Houston Astros ace pitcher Silvio Baretto (an amalgamation of real-life pitchers Bob Knepper and Juan Agosto) pitches and wins a night game at the Astrodome. Additionally, each victim had her throat slashed by some sort of knife or hook.
Scheider plays former minor league baseball player turned Galveston homicide detective Mike Seaver. Seaver is a staunch Astros fan and is the only person on the case who begins to realize the coincidence of the deaths coming after Sil Barretto’s night game wins in the Dome.
After 95 minutes of sleuthing, Seaver ultimately realizes that the murderer is a disgruntled former Astros pitcher named Floyd Epps. Epps had lost his pitching hand in a minor league bus accident and now wears a hook. He personally, if illogically, blames Sil Baretto for his misfortune and decides that his murders on the same night as Baretto’s wins will steal the headlines from his former teammate.
CAST
Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Richard Bradford, Paul Gleason, Lane Smith, Rex Linn, Matt Carlson, Michelle Cochran, Alex Garcia, Alex Morris, Anthony Palmer, Renee O’Connor, James Black and Carlin Glynn
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Just an interesting tidbit: Paul Gleason was raised in Miami Beach, Florida. At age 16, he ran away from home and hitchhiked across the east coast, sleeping on beaches and playing baseball.[3] He attended North Miami High School and Florida State University, where he played football. He signed a professional baseball contract with the Cleveland Indians, but played just briefly in two minor league seasons between 1959 and 1960.[4]
Sadly the last 10 minutes are just as predictable as they are flawed, when it so easily could have been otherwise. Still this is a fine flick for the genre and the era. Scheider is tops!
39:43, who's artwork ?
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44:38 Scheider moves like a dancer.
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01:17:27
Paul Gleason – Well how'd you like to kiss my black cat's ass ?
That was the funniest line, I burst out laughing 🤣 strange thing to say but still funny.
Thanks for the upload!
I don't like violence in the movies, but generally l like 80s movies, the time,fasion, people, music, all were different then!
35:11 Is that Xena's friend?
About the flimsiest premise for a murder – Barretto strikes and Epps heads to the beach! And Roy's baby promptly too. That's called an aggravation; seriously wouldn't waste my time over the final interminable deja vu done many times over before. Even Roy cannot rescue a badly written plot.
lousy plot
Dumb and very flimsy at near end.
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Good ‘bit’ acting!😂
Made for TV movie , as predictable as rising prices. Scheider was at least 56 when he made this.
The kind of late 80s TV movie that took at least an hour to write. Opening credits and 1st scene like a big-budget porn video.
I remember the movie with the sharks and the some actor , both films are extremely exciting , great acting .Thank You for the relaxing , watching hour and extraortinary minutes of keeping me busy , interested
Another movie about a cop out of control. Too bad the cop had to pick little girls to date. Lack of confidence in his manhood. A creep is following you so you leave a public place and go into an area when there are no people. Too bad she was not the next victim.
one thing for certain is Roy can't dance
1:30:03 why didnt the woman pick up something to protect herself? she sure didnt know martial arts. guess it was written in the script that she was stupid and didnt think that far ahead. the writer must of been a woman hater, making them out to be helpless
Roy Scheider was in a certain way a kind of an american Belmondo…..excellent actor…..
1:26:00 showdown
1:31:20 time for the church now
This is the result when a group of Italian business tycoons decide to produce a TV movie to provide them with an above-board tax shelter. Or could the production be a launderette for filthy lire?
Good Flick thank you.
A cool looking Roy Scheider movie I have never seen. Nice.
WUBBISH silly plot
😓What a lousy movie!! 1 big 0!
Unfortunately Roy made a few stinkers towards the end of the 80s, this one and Cohen and Tate. Though anything with Roy is worth watching.