Let's face it: Unless you're a fan of this venerable game, there are few spectator sports duller than golf. And good acting, lush locales and snazzy special effects can't disguise the fact that it's a profoundly uncinematic sport, not even in a movie about the first American to shatter the sport's long-standing class barrier. Raised directly across the street from a tony Brookline, Mass., golf club, the closest young Francis Ouimet (Shia LaBeouf) can hope to come to playing the "gentleman's" sport is caddying for wealthy Brahmins; working-class boys simply don't golf. Few have felt the sting of exclusion as keenly as Ouimet's own father, French-born, working-class la...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
120 mins