Details

Release year: 2006

Storyline

An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game so they won't get kicked out of the local league.

Top credits

Directors

Frank Sebastiano

Writers

Cast

Artie Lange — Artie DeVanzo
Ralph Macchio — Maz
Anthony DeSando — Dennis Mangenelli
Cara Buono — Linda Salvo

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Did you know

• Laurie Metcalf plays Artie Lange's mother, despite being only 12 years older.

• At one point in the film, Artie is calling girls from his high-school days, making references to Union High School in New Jersey, where he attended school.

• Artie Lange was working on the Howard Stern Show at the time he had co-written, starred and co-produced the film, which Stern gave a positive endorsement to after Lange displayed that he was beating his drug habit at that time. Lange would eventually be forced to leave the show in 2009 due to a serious relapse in his drug addiction and an attempted suicide. Stern would eventually cut ties with him for this and to this very day, "Loves him for his contributions to his show and very sad for what's happened to him since."