I was bowled over when I first heard Liev Schreiber as the voice of God in A24‘s new documentary series Born to Bowl. I probably should not have been, considering the Ray Donovan star famously and fantastically narrates fellow HBO Sports docuseries Hard Knocks. Also, you’d think I’d have read the press notes.
If Kingpin is the definitive bowling movie (no offense to The Big Lebowski, but their rolling was more of a side quest), Born to Bowl is the definitive bowling documentary. Both are funny, but in the latter, we’re laughing with the bowlers more than we are at them. James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, also the filmmakers behind McMillions, would have it no other way.
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For Born to Bowl, Hernandez, Lazarte and to some degree Ben Stiller (through his Red Hour Productions), followed professional bowlers Kyle Troup, Anthony Simonsen, EJ Tackett,
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