How about a baseball card movie ?

[blackandgold]

Has anyone seen "Dimished Capacity" ? It stars Alan Alda as an old man with a very rare Wildfire Schulte card (looks like a T206 size-wise) and Matthew Broderick plays his nephew, who is driving him to a card show to sell it ?
I saw it a while back and the discussion about baseball movies made me wonder if others were aware of it.
Have a great day !

[Jlighter]

I've wanted to see this movie, but have not been able to find it on t.v.

[Shoeless Moe]

1955 Brooklyn Dodger Cards

[mighty bombjack]

I wanted to like the movie but couldn't. I thought it was terrible.

[Prof_Plum]

"Cop Out" with Bruce Willis. Story revolves around somebody stealing his 1952 Andy Pafko.

[tedzan]

"Rainman"

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise....at the start of the movie, Dustin is displaying his BB card collection.


TED Z

[Jason]

Originally Posted by Prof_Plum

"Cop Out" with Bruce Willis. Story revolves around somebody stealing his 1952 Andy Pafko.

That's a good one.Gem Mint Pafko I can't remember what Willis said the value was though.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by blackandgold

Has anyone seen "Dimished Capacity" ? It stars Alan Alda as an old man with a very rare Wildfire Schulte card (looks like a T206 size-wise) and Matthew Broderick plays his nephew, who is driving him to a card show to sell it ?
I saw it a while back and the discussion about baseball movies made me wonder if others were aware of it.
Have a great day !

It's on Netflix streaming...it was almost unwatchable in my opinion. The dealers were just caricatures and the acting all around was horrible.

[bbcard1]

I stuck it in my cue

[z28jd]

The movie A Christmas Story has some old cards near the beginning, stuck to the headboard of Ralphie's bed. If you're anything like me, you'll see that scene about 6-10 times nine days from now

[bbcard1]

I concur Diminished Capacity was ok...worth watching...the way they handle baseball cards in these always drives me up the wall. My mother-in-law who had dementia, lived with us for several years until her death, so it was interesting to me from that perspective.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Originally Posted by z28jd

The movie A Christmas Story has some old cards near the beginning, stuck to the headboard of Ralphie's bed. If you're anything like me, you'll see that scene about 6-10 times nine days from now

Ralphie also mentions "Rube Walker" calls him "Ruby" as many of us oldtimers did. Dave. Kinda like "Hooteman or Houteman"?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Cardboard Junkie

Ralphie also mentions "Rube Walker" calls him "Ruby" as many of us oldtimers did. Dave. Kinda like "Hooteman or Houteman"?

You can see some T206 cards taped/glued to Ralphie's headboard in one scene from A Christmas Story.

Anyone seen Brighton Beach Memoirs? Lots of cards/memorabilia on the walls of the main character's bedroom.

[itjclarke]

The Natural- it has the uncut sheets of wanna be '41 Play Ball type cards

Mask- Rocky Dennis rips his buddy's '55 Topps card... I think it's Rube Walker but might be wrong.. Check that, I think he rips a '74 Topps Dodger (Cey?).. But think they have a '55 Rube Walker

Major League- Pedro Cerrano has a '54 Topps Aaron hanging in his locker

Boardwalk Empire- Jimmy's son has a stack of T206's including a Cobb bat on (assuming reprints)

I'll add more if they occur to me... I'm not sure this is the OP's intention but I like where this is going.

ADDING-

Jacob's Ladder- sort of a downer here... little McAauly Culkin while crossing the drops a stack of '74 Topps cards and gets run over by a car while picking them up

Stand By Me- Gordie Le Chance's big bro (John Cusack) has some Topps cards hanging from his wall.. I think maybe a '60 Mantle? Which I think I remember bugging me because the movie is supposed to be in the late '50's. I may be making that memory up though.. Haven't seen the movie in year

Big- flipping through a wax pack ('86 or '87 based on shooting dates) saying, "got em, got em, need him, got em"