Game 6 (film)

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Game 6
Image:Game 6 dvd cover.jpg
Directed by	Michael Hoffman
Produced by	Griffin Dunne Amy Robinson
Written by	Don DeLillo
Starring	Michael Keaton Griffin Dunne Robert Downey Jr.
Distributed by	Kindred Media Group
Release date(s)	10 March, 2006
Running time	87 min.
Language	English
Budget	$500,000

Game 6 is a film first presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and released in the United States in 2006. The film deals with the events of October 25, 1986 in the life of Nicky Rogan (Keaton), specifically the opening of his latest play juxtaposed with Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

The film is strikingly similar to Delillo's novel "White Noise"; there's a toxic fume that the main character must escape from, a strong bond with a daughter, and Nicky discovers an escape from his obsession, the Boston Red Sox's failures, by attempting murder. In "White Noise" the fixation was with death, not failure. However, both murders were averted when the main characters were given epiphanies by the potential victims. Coincidentally, Keaton was in a movie called "White Noise," a movie unrelated to DeLillo's novel.