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Home run: The Miller brothers bring "Touching Home," and a book about the making of the movie, to AT&T Park Saturday, June 6.
Still pitching, Miller brothers touch home at AT&T Park
When Noah and Logan Miller showed up at the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival with the world premiere of Touching Home, the unheralded Marin County twins garnered Rookie of the Year kudos for their family baseball drama. But their unbelievable, against-all-odds road to a finished movie also raised the question of whether they would turn out to be one-hit wonders. With HarperCollins’ late-April release of their lauded memoir and a clutch of completed original screenplays, the Millers are determined to avoid the dreaded sophomore jinx.
Touching Home isn’t slated to reach theaters until next year, but it plays a monster venue this Saturday night: The mammoth HD scoreboard at AT&T Park, home of the Giants. The film is the centerpiece of Bookstock 2009, a family outing on the outfield grass with live bands, an art show, the film and a launch party/book-signing for Either You’re in or You’re in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father.
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Millers' crossing: Bay Area-born brothers Logan and Noah Miller (here with Brad Dourif) wrote, directed and star in "Touching Home." (Photo courtesy SFFS)
SFIFF51: The Miller Brothers on writing, pitching, acting, directing, and hitting one out of the ballpark
Right about now, San Franciscans could use a baseball story that warms hearts as opposed to chilling souls. Touching Home by Bay Area-raised identical twins Logan and Noah Miller is a largely autobiographical coming-of-age film that radiates sincerity. Two major league hopefuls contending with their alcoholic father and some bad luck round the bases of West Marin with steadfast purpose and occasional humor. More impressive than the gleam of these two new actors’ smiles and the polish of this debut film’s editing and cinematography is the chutzpah the twins demonstrated in getting actors like Ed Harris and Robert Forster to play major roles. Less likely, perhaps, than being called up to the big leagues was their capture of actor Harris’s attention in the alley of the Castro Theatre after a 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival tribute. They showed him a short trailer of their project, and a short while later, they got the call that he would be solidly behind it. The film makes its world premiere Saturday, April 26, during SFIFF51. SF360.org got a chance to ask the twins about baseball and miracles over email last week.
This week, SF360.org runs a special series of interviews with Bay Area filmmakers in the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival. SFIFF51 runs April 24-May 8 at the Sundance Kabuki, Castro, Pacific Film Archive, Clay Theatre and other locations.
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