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American Pastime is a american film of genre Drama directed by Desmond Nakano released in USA on 14 may 2007 with Gary Cole
American Pastime (2007)
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Add to a movie listAmerican Pastime is a 2007 film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah prison camp which held thousands of people during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
While the film is a dramatic narrative, it is based on true events and depicts life inside the internment camps, where baseball was one of the major diversions from the reality of the internees' lives. Location scenes were filmed in bleak, desolate land, not far from the site of the actual internment camp.
Synopsis
The first scene shows the life of the Nomura family, a typical American family of Japanese descent in 1941, composed of Japanese-born parents and American-born children (in this case, two sons, Lane and Lyle).Actors
Gary Cole
(Billy Burrell)
Aaron Yoo
(Lyle Nomura)
Jon Gries
(Ed Tully)
Masatoshi Nakamura
Leonardo Nam
(Lane Nomura)
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