Off the Black

Off the Black
Would you let this man be your father?
Directed by	James Ponsoldt
Produced by	Scott Macauley Robin O'Hara
Written by	James Ponsoldt
Starring	Nick Nolte Trevor Morgan Timothy Hutton Sally Kirkland
Music by	Claire Campbell Alex Neville Brian Petway
Cinematography	Tim Orr
Editing by	Sabine Hoffmann
Distributed by	THINKFilm
Release date(s)	December 8, 2006 (Sundance Film Festival)
Running time	90 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Off the Black is a 2006 American drama film starring Nick Nolte and Trevor Morgan. It was written and directed by James Ponsoldt, who also has a small role in the film, and is his feature directorial debut.

Plot synopsis

Ray Cook (Nolte) is a bitter, disconcerted high school baseball umpire and chronic alcoholic who, after a series of unusual events, crosses paths with Dave Tibbel (Morgan), a high school baseball player seeking revenge after Cook's questionable calls cost his team the most crucial game of the season. Over time, an unlikely bond forms between the mismatched pair, and Dave agrees to pose as Ray's son for the old man's forty-year high school reunion. The film is a story of two wandering lost souls, one an adolescent boy struggling (along with his younger sister-a sad lonely Sonia Feigelson) with an absent mother and a father (played brilliantly by Timothy Hutton) who has entirely checked out, and the other an older man, who has seen the curve balls life can throw at you and continuously struck out in his struggle to be the man he wishes to be.

Cast

Actor	Role
Trevor Morgan	Dave Tibbel
Nick Nolte	Ray Cook
Sonia Feigelson	Ashley Tibbel
Rosemarie DeWitt	Debra
Timothy Hutton	Mr. Tibbel
Sally Kirkland	Marianne Reynolds
Noah Fleiss	Todd Hunter
Johnathan Tchaikovsky	Paul Michaels
Michael Higgins	Al Cook

External links

• Off the Black at the Internet Movie Database
• Off the Black at AllRovi