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Twelve-year-old poet Marty Jones wants to be a baseball star. Motivated by the quirky success of Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych, Marty writes a poem to the Detroit Tigers' star rookie pitcher....
With Jon Barinholtz, Robert Belushi, Jimmy Binns, Jack Cramer. It's 1976 in Detroit. Twelve-year-old poet Marty Jones wants to be a baseball star. Motivated by the quirky success of Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych, Marty writes a poem to the Detroit Tigers' star rookie pitcher.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Mike Cramer
- 2009-06
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Apr 19, 2009 · Fidrych is the movie’s inspiration — Fidrych the man, a fully formed extension of the quirky Detroit Tigers pitcher who took baseball by storm for one giddy season as “the Bird” in 1976, then...
“Dear Mr. Fidrych” follows 12-year-old Marty Jones, a budding poet and aspiring baseball player in 1976 Detroit. Inspired by Detroit Tigers’ rookie sensation Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, Marty pens a poem to his hero and receives a life-changing letter in return, setting him on a winning streak in his own Little League games.
Movie Info. A father takes his son on a road trip to reconnect. Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Original Language: English. Director: Mike Cramer. Writer: Mike Cramer....
- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jun 20, 2010 · Working on nights and weekends, Cramer wrote, directed and starred in an independent film titled "Dear Mr. Fidrych". In the first half of the movie, Marty Jones (played by Cramer's son Noah) is an intellectual 12-year-old boy, who is teased by school bullies for his interest in poetry.
