EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The Hill, an inspirational true life sports drama starring Dennis Quaid, scripted by Angelo Pizzo & Scott Marshall Smith and directed by Jeff Celentano.
Quaid starred in one of the most successful fact based sports films in recent memory with The Rookie, and Pizzo wrote two of the best true sports films in Rudy and Hoosiers.
Celentano helmed Gunshy and Breaking Point. Quaid plays James Hill, a traveling pastor who becomes an overbearing influence on Rickey Hill, his sandlot baseball phenom son.
The pastor thinks he’s protecting the boy because of health concerns and fear of how others will treat the youth because of his physical disabilities.
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