SUMMER OF '48
LIFE NETWORK
2001 | 46 mins
Relations between filmmaker Dugald Maudsley and his father, Don, have been strained for two decades. With great unease they embark on a road trip together - a search for all the men Don played baseball with in 1948.
In 1948 Don won a coveted position on the Pee Wee All Stars, a baseball team in his hometown of London, Ontario. That year he and his fellow 13-year-old team mates traveled all the way to the championships – and lost.
Just before the big series, his coach, Joe Bechard, left the team. Fifty years later, obsessed by that final loss and his coach’s abandonment of the team, Don decides to go in search of Joe and all the boys he played with.
While Don is driven by reasons he can’t name, Dugald is compelled to film his father’s search because he too is haunted by abandonment and loss.
The Summer of ‘48 is an intimate exploration of the emotions men keep from each other and a story about the power of forgiveness.
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