'23 Blast' Sets Sights On More Than Football

By Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle: Movies
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 12:25pm

"23 Blast" tells a fact-based story about a star high school football player in Kentucky who gets a killer infection and ends up, in a matter of hours, completely and irreversibly blind. The film marks the directing debut of Dylan Baker, a character actor who has been a familiar face in movies for the past 20 years. Just as important to the film as the characters and their tribulations is Baker's feeling for small-town life and for the kinds of people who live in towns where the football team is something everybody cares about.

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