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Man With the Perfect Swing [VHS]

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It sounds awful - a low-budget movie, starring unknowns, about golf (a sport that, barring "Tin Cup", a few moments of Tracey/Hepburn magic and , at a pinch, "Caddyshack" has produced as many great movies as, say, tiddlywinks).

But it's damn good. A stellar performance by James Black (he with the Perfect etc.) is backed up by some very solid supporting actors. The script is sharp as a razor... Only the rather insipid technical direction (pretty forgivable on a movie that must have been shot for dimes over a few days) lets it down. But as the direction of the actors is so elegant, you barely notice this after the first few minutes.

Maybe better as a rental than a purchase unless you're a golf fiend or a wannabe low-budget filmmaker (in which case you can learn more about Real Film from this than any slacker "masterpiece" such as "Clerks" or the Blair Witch wotsit), it still deserves to have more of a future than its almost certain destination of Video Hell. As do the actors and the director.

I was thoroughly, unexpectedly, charmed.