Sticky My Fingers... Fleet My Feet

I don't know why I was thinking of this movie. It was about a cocky guy in his late 30's early 40's who plays a regular touch football game in the park. (Central Park?) He gets taken to school by a younger man and has to come to terms with his limitations of age. It ends with a nice touch.

I remember seeing this movie in a strange place. My 6th grade teacher showed it the class and attempted to have a discussion afterword. Why he thought that a bunch of 12 year olds would get this what he thought we would understand about midlife crises is beyond me or was trying to accomplish is beyond me to understand?

I think I saw this as the trailer to the Woody Allen film, Bananas. It was a surprisingly interesting and engaging short film. I haven't seen it in decades, since I saw it in 1971. But I still remember the plot and the interesting actors. The young man, the aging "veteran" obth well played. It was a sweet film.

From the title, I thought this was going to about a bit of Dickensian thievery. Instead, it's a rather dull and repetitious drama about a group of middle-aged American men who routinely chuck a ball about in the park. None of them are exactly in peak position, indeed a few of them are positively plump, but with each as bad as the other it's friendly and competitive. That is until "Wesley", the young nephew of one of their number, turns up to play. Now most of them probably have socks older than him, so it's no great surprise that he can run rings around them without breaking into a sweat. They, on the other hand, struggle - especially when it rains and the ground becomes more of a quagmire. For a few minutes it's quite a fun exposé on growing old disgracefully, but it - like them - quickly runs out of steam as we end up watching most of their game in real time and that's just a dull. It's probably fifteen minutes longer than it needs to be to make it's point and sustain the joke.