The film is meandering and highly uneven, but Robert Downey Jr. Don De Lillo wrote the screenplay, but his usual novelistic postmodernism is kept at bay. In the course of the evening in which the film takes place, we also learn a lot about his wife's divorce action, his daughter's snippiness, and the temperament of New York cabbies (not a lot new to learn there). The fact that Nicky is a die-hard Red Sox fan despite living his whole life in New York is only one of the many quirks in his character. Michael Keaton plays Nicky Rogan, a New York dramatist who has a new show opening on Broadway the same night as the sixth game of the 1986 World Series featuring his beloved Boston Red Sox.
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