Sometimes the line between pleasure and pain blur.

Twenty-six years as an actor/director and a lifetime as a baseball fan have made Ralph Elias stark raving sane. In this filmed version of his hit one-man stage show, Elias takes the audience on a funny, eccentric and provocative trot around the bases of life, through a dark clubhouse of painful memory, and back into sunlight. Player's Joy is a truly American story, told in a style reminiscent of Spaulding Gray and John Lequizamo (with a little help from Will Shakespeare).