Director: Carson Lund
Cast: Cliff Blake, Keith William Richards, Bill Lee, Keith Poulson, Conner Marx
Eephus is a 2025 American comedy-drama film directed by Carson Lund, following a group of recreational baseball players spending one final afternoon on their neighborhood diamond before bulldozers arrive — a leisurely, bittersweet portrait of male camaraderie, ritual, and the quiet grief of losing a place that holds a community together.
What is Eephus about?
On the last afternoon before their beloved recreational field is demolished, a ragtag group of middle-aged men gather for what everyone knows will be the final game. There is no fanfare, no ceremony — just balls, strikes, and the unspoken understanding that something irreplaceable is slipping away. As the innings stretch and daylight shrinks, conversations drift between old memories and half-formed regrets. The humor is gentle, the pacing deliberate, and the mood suffused with the particular melancholy of men who rarely articulate their feelings but show up, glove in hand, because this field — and these friendships — have quietly structured their lives for decades. Director Carson Lund lets the game breathe, turning a single afternoon into an elegiac meditation on time, place, and belonging.
Cast & crew
Carson Lund, making his feature directorial debut, assembled a largely non-professional ensemble that includes Cliff Blake, Keith William Richards, Bill Lee — the legendary Red Sox pitcher-turned-musician — Keith Poulson, Conner Marx, Theodore Bouloukos, Wayne Diamond, and Stephen Radochia. The cast's naturalistic ease gives the film its unhurried, documentary-like texture.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking and diaspora audiences, Eephus resonates on a frequency that transcends baseball. The Iranian diaspora knows acutely what it means to lose a gathering place — a neighborhood, a courtyard, a familiar street corner — and to carry the ghost of it across continents. The film's themes of male friendship expressed through shared ritual rather than spoken emotion translate directly into Iranian cultural memory. Eephus is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, making its quiet humor and understated pathos fully accessible without any background knowledge of American baseball.
Where & how to watch
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