Curveball
(2015/RLJ DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Film: C+
Brandon
Thaxton's Curveball (2015) is about a boy named Nolan
(Rockmund Dunbar), a rising star on his high school baseball team,
but when he gets into drugs, he loses his grades, performance,
friends and even girl friend. As he loses them one by one, he gets
deeper into drugs and soon his only escape from reality is his drug
addiction. While it is hard for him, can tough love, rehab and a
mother's love be enough to save him?
Nolan is your typical
American white high school boy; while he studies hard in school and
plays hard on the baseball team, his only problem is he parties even
harder. His best friend Sam gets him hooked on drugs, but when Sam
dies of an overdose Nolan feels the guilt and denial. The only way
he know how to escape from the pain is to get even higher. His
nurse/mother tries to get him into drug rehab and help him go cold
turkey, his need for drugs only gets worst and he rapidly loses his
health, grades and everything that once made him a star. In the end,
the help comes too late from the system and his withdrawal systems
get so bad that he does anything for just one more high.
This
is another teen drug movie for "Kids... this your brain ...and
this is your brain on drugs" message movie, but I guess there
are no happy ends for this movie, no hope for recovering. Now a
days, it is better to show kids what a death of an addict is like
than give them hope that a drug addict can recover. The real lesson
is there is no true cure fore drug addicts, they will never get
better, addicts will be addicts for he rest of the remainder of their
lives, even if they don't die their lives will be a constant
struggle, so it is better that people to learn how to avoid drugs and
people who associate with them.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is a very soft HJD shoot and
lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is as poor, flat and weak, so don't
expect much from the playback performance. There are no extras.
-
Ricky Chiang
