Director: Christopher Browne
Country: USA
Year: 2004
Runtime: 93 minutes
Language: English

Awards: SXSW Film Festival - Audience Award

Since I have little patience with professional sports in which adults pursue balls—foot, basket, base, or other—I approached this film with skepticism verging on scorn. A documentary about professional bowling? It didn’t sound promising. Surprise, surprise. A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN is entertaining and informative. The film first traces the rise and gradual decline of interest in professional bowling in the United States. When three Microsoft employees buy the whole PBA—balls, pins, bags and all—and hire a successful Nike marketing expert to turn what looks like a bad investment into a gold-plated business success, the result is an only-in-America story—not the least interesting part of which is the uneasy marriage of bowling and television. By turns funny and shocking, A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN is for sports fans of all ages. ~ Nick Salerno

Principal Cast: Pete Weber, Wayne Webb, Walter Ray Williams, Jr., Chris Barnes, Steve Miller

Producers: Wilhelmus Bryan, Alexander Browne
Cinematographer: Ken Seng
Editors: Kurt Engfehr, Dave Tung