Nearly two decades after scoring an audience award at Sundance for “Two Family House,” a smartly understated yet deeply affecting indie about a Staten Island factory worker who deeply regrets stifl…
Manganiello plays Sonny Stano, a once-promising baseball player who was on his way to a major league career with the New York Yankees when he accidentally killed someone in a street fight. After spending 18 years in Sing Sing, he returns to his old Bronx neighborhood and receives a reception several degrees less than warm.
Things don’t start to look up for Sonny until he’s hired as an assistant by a former coach, Harris , who’s now in charge of the State Island Empires, a fictional Yankees farm team. The job offer isn’t merely a favor: Harris needs Sonny’s expertise to sharpen the focus and discipline the slugging of Manny , a hot-prospect hitter who thinks there’s nothing any old-timer — and especially an ex-con old-timer — can teach him.
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