Word: sobieski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CASEY'S SHADOW Directed by Martin Ritt Screenplay by Carol Sobieski...
Like Nancy Dowd's script for Slap Shot, Casey's Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...