Resurrection: The J.R. Richard Story | |
Director: | Greg Carter |
Producer: | Benjamin O. Jimerson-Phillips Greg Carter Larry Johnson J.R. Richard Executive Producers: Charlie Bellinger-Bethea Larry Johnson Quanell X |
Starring: | David Ramsey Charles Durning Kenya Moore Sara Stokes Ron Finberg Anika McFall Annette P. Jimerson Jessica M. Jimerson |
Studio: | Bellinger-Bethea X Films |
Runtime: | 120 min[1] |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Resurrection: The J.R. Richard Story is a 2005 American independent film, directed by Greg Carter and Benjamin O. Jimerson-Phillips, Executive Producers Charlie Bellinger, J.R. Richard & Larry Johnson; and Produced by Benjamin O. Jimerson-Phillips, and Bruce Dalton, starring David Ramsey and Charles Durning two time Academy Award Nominee.[2] [3] The film is a biopic[4] tale of the Houston Astros baseball Pitcher J. R. Richard, his life high points and struggles. It was shot by Bellinger-7 Films, which is owned by Ms. Charlie Bellinger-Bethea, former wife of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Elvin Bethea, and done in association with Nexus Films & Adept Films Inc.[4]
The story of famed Houston Astros baseball Pitcher J.R. Richard, from his early life in Louisiana, to his beginnings as a major baseball player in 1969, leading up to the massive stroke he suffered in 1980, leaving his only true Resurrection to his close friends and fans back into baseball.