Growing up in Las Vegas, Danny and Melissa meet at age eight and are destined to become life-long friends. During their teen years, they cling to each other for love and security, but as they grow older, their lives take different paths. Danny fills the void in his heart with his passion and love for America's favorite pastime. Melissa, filled with the insecurities of her youth, struggles to find the strength to pursue her childhood dreams. Although apart, their lives are forever connected. Like a glorious seven-game world series, "Pitcher and the Pin-Up" is a story of imperishable hope, courage, faith, love, and coming home.
Cuando la consentida mujer de Donald Chandler le abandona, él pierde entonces a su verdadero amor, su restaurante. Su jardinero, Miguel Sánchez, gana la lotería y le propone abrir un nuevo restaurante para él si accede a casarse con la insoportable de su hermana, Catalina, para que así ella pueda obtener la nacionalidad. Donald acepta. El mundo se le viene encima cuando toda la familia del nuevo rico jardinero se viene a vivir a su casa. Cuando la atracción comienza a surgir verdaderamente ente Donald y Catalina, Miguel le amenaza con quitarle el restaurante si su relación con su hermana es algo más que puramente negocios. En un giro inesperado, la ex mujer de Donald regresa para seducirle, pero a Donald le atrae más Catalina. Esta le pide que elija entre ella o el restaurante, y mientras Donald se lo piensa, ella se escapa a México. Donald debe decidir entonces si quedarse con el restaurante o seguir lo que le pide el corazón. ¿Triunfará el “Loco Amor”?
Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
A film about raw and real teenage life that does not shy away from what is really occurring in today's society and what America has been blinded to. A film that will change millions of lives. The movie America has been waiting for all along.
