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Fear Strikes Out
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301608978
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301608976
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: March 22, 1990
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
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Editorial Review:
From its early scenes of a young Jimmy Piersall literally suffering his father's abusive determination that the boy should play baseball, Robert Mulligan's 1957 Fear Strikes Out becomes more about mental health than love of the game. But this is a compelling drama about the real-life Piersall's gradual breakdown one season before a national audience, the legacy of his domineering dad's overbearing ways. (Karl Malden plays Piersall's father.) Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) brings his usual, civilized mix of poignancy and dramatic urgency to the proceedings, keeping any viewer (sports fan or not) involved. Perkins looks out of place on the field and is meant to appear that way; his fragility and intensity underscore the sad tale of Piersall's woes. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Demons on the Diamond
This is not supposed to happen in professional sports, with our heroes who wear the uniforms of our home team....right?
Director Robert Mulligan tackles what remains a delicate issue, mental illness - bipolar disorder - of an athlete, in this 1957 release based on the nervous breakdown of Boston Red Sox player Jimmy Piersall and his struggle to get back to the major leagues while confronting his personal demons.
Anthony Perkins portrays Piersall and Karl Malden turns in ... Read More
Rating:  - Chiling and revealing.
Anthony Perkins does an incredible job of portraying someone with bi-polar disorder. If I were in charge of the Academy Awards I would have given him the oscar for this role. His acting was phenomenal. The movie is very serious. It is well done and they treat the subject matter of Jimmy Pearsal's illness very delicately. It is an excellent movie, however, not one for a happy-go-lucky evening. It is more for a serious evening. The only flaw I saw in the movie is that they never portrayed the ... Read More
Rating: - Tense and dramatic from beginning to end
Both Perkins and Malden turn in possibly the greatest performances of their illustrious careers in this story of the gifted but troubled center fielder. Perkins is truly brilliant in the role, and its hard to imagine anyone at this point who could have done a better job in the role. Maldon is relentless as the overbearing sports dad, who does love his son and wants him to do well, but whose love is truly a two-edged sword. The rest of the cast is excellent as well, the movie has a fine script, and the ... Read More
Rating: - Makes you think twice
Excellent movie for all parents with children playing
any sport to watch.
Rating:  - Pretty good movie about baseball, and then some.
Karl Malden and Anthony Perkins make a good pair for the father and son Piersall in this movie. Malden had a slew of movies like this where he played a heavy, in this flick the domineering dad that sends Perkins over the edge. And to say Perkins isn't Gary Cooper or Piersall not Gehrig. Well, duh! Not the point of this movie to make a warm loving character study as that of Gehrig in "Pride of the Yankees." And in that effort this movie is totally successful. Not all baseball stories end in warm touching ... Read More
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