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      Finding Buck McHenry

      TV-PG 2000 1 hr. 35 min. Kids & Family Drama List
      Reviews 67% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Jason (Michael Schiffman) is an 11-year-old with a passion for baseball, and one big problem -- he has been cut from his Little League Team. Now he wants to start a team of his own, but if he is to do so, he needs a coach. So he turns to the man who loves baseball as much as he does: Mack Henry (Ossie Davis), the school's custodian. The fountain of knowledge that can be seen through Mack's coaching, however, leads Jason to suspect that he may actually be Buck McHenry, ex-Negro League star. Read More Read Less

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      StephenPaul C The greatest 01 hour: and 35 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Featuring Ossie Davis as Buck McHenry and Ruby Dee as Mrs. McHenry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty good! Good story. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member I saw the movie and I thought it cute. Goes back to a time when kids thought, played games other than computers. Would purchase except can not find Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member (** 1/2): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] The story was very interesting to me, but the acting here made my eyes roll more than once... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member The main character is a complete idiot. For me, he made this movie, an otherwise okay movie, very annoying. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Charles Burnett takes a cheerful script with an unbearably perky ending and with quiet, effortless grace brings out the sadness inherent in the material, the years of racism and waste of not just good but great baseball players. It's a fairy tale, the way Nightjohn was in its way a fairy tale--an expressive means of not just telling it the way it happened, but of telling us what should happen, a hint of the better world we should be striving for. In a way this disguised lament speaks of Burnett's own career--of how one of America's finest filmmakers has to turn to family cable TV for the money to continue speaking out, doing work, making films that, despite all odds, matters. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews All you have to know is that it stars the great Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Rated: B+ Mar 17, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Jason (Michael Schiffman) is an 11-year-old with a passion for baseball, and one big problem -- he has been cut from his Little League Team. Now he wants to start a team of his own, but if he is to do so, he needs a coach. So he turns to the man who loves baseball as much as he does: Mack Henry (Ossie Davis), the school's custodian. The fountain of knowledge that can be seen through Mack's coaching, however, leads Jason to suspect that he may actually be Buck McHenry, ex-Negro League star.
      Director
      Charles Burnett
      Executive Producer
      Lin Oliver, Robert A. Halmi, Bobby Heller
      Screenwriter
      Alfred Slote, David Field
      Rating
      TV-PG (L)
      Genre
      Kids & Family, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jan 12, 2007