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HEAVEN CAN WAIT meets BULL DURHAM
Two Baseball Gods set aside their failed romance to fix a decades-old mistake and realign destiny by getting a 51-year-old pitcher a chance to play pro ball.
The Baseball Gods made a mistake? Supernatural supervisors Goldy and Karma must set aside their failed romance and fix a destiny-changing mistake that ended Dan’s promising college baseball career. Tapping their Earthly experiences as an insightful pitching veteran from the Negro Leagues and a feisty softball catcher, Goldy and Karma experiment with meaningful coincidences to intervene at key points in Dan’s life and realign his destiny.
With his baseball dreams crushed, Dan struggles to reinvent himself without the game, but a haunting question pervades his thoughts: was he good enough to play pro ball? Thanks to a nudge from Goldy and Karma, he returns to the game in an adult league, rekindling his passion and love of the game, but also awakening a fiery combination of competitiveness and a persistent frustration of being a “mighta-been.”
This inner conflict creates tension on and off the field. While Dan loves being a husband and father and enjoys career success, he gets ejected as coach of a youth game and player on his adult team. As his wife Bev handles the fallout, she names this combustive on-the-field alter ego “Baseball Dan.” This also strains his relationship with college teammate and lifelong friend Alonso. He shares Dan’s passion for the game but plays for fun as a welcome distraction from the stresses of everyday life.
As Karma and Goldy sort through both their lingering romantic attraction and the quantum possibilities to help Dan, they wrestle with guilt and forgiveness for their roles in Dan’s career-ending injury. They also juggle the additional responsibility of training Earl, a clumsy Baseball God who is failing to master the heavenly methods to deliver on their mantra: make sure everybody gets what’s coming to ‘em.
Eventually, Goldy, Karma, and Earl employ an unconventional solution to enable the 51-year-old Dan to start on the mound for a professional team in the Pecos League against 23-year-old studs. Can he heal his relationship with the game and finally believe he’s “legit” on the field and, more importantly, in his own heart and mind?
The inspirational ending shows the Baseball Gods deliver on their mantra, however, “what’s coming to you” may look different than what you imagined.
The Baseball Gods comedic drive to fix their mistake, and Dan’s true-events baseball tale, create a divinely unique sports dramedy that weaves together two human-experience stories, layering themes of spirituality, guilt, forgiveness, redemption, unfulfilled dreams, and aging.
The Dude Is Legit! was a winner in four recent industry screenplay competitions.
Garden State Film Festival 2024
Best Feature Screenplay
Zepstone Film Awards 2023
Best Original Screenplay
Orinos Film Awards – New York 2022
Best Feature Script
INFLUX Film Awards 2022
Best Long Form Screenplay
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