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Director: Charles Cohen and Joseph Mathew
Cast: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert
Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 70 min
Format: video
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one ever argued that Baltimore's Memorial Stadium was a great
architectural building, or that it should aspire to national
importance the way Fenway, Yankee Stadium, or the old Polo
Grounds have. But, it may have had a more universal pull-
the pull of great community gathering places - and the power
of that is what this film is all about. Tucked in a residential
neighborhood of Baltimore row homes and public schools, Memorial
Stadium drew the city to it.
The filmmakers have chronicled the last days and abiding
memories of what was called the " world's largest outdoor
insane asylum." People came mostly to see the Colts or the
Orioles. They came as couples, or by themselves. They came
with their parents, they sat among people who had become their
friends, and they shared fresh-shucked oysters and jugs of
unidentified liquid. They survived crushing losses, the wildness
of victories, even a bizarre plane crash. The importance of
that gathering place may already be fading. This film will
put smiles on people's faces as it helps them remember an
odd place that brought a city together.
--Jed Dietz
Presented By: Charles Cohen, Joseph Mathew
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