That Championship Season (1982) review

Mayor George Sitkowski (Bruce Dern), Phil (Paul Sorvino), educator James (Stacy Keach) and his brother Tom Daley (Martin Sheen), who were members of the Fillmore High School basketball team that won the Pennsylvania championship in 1957, meet up at the house of their former coach Daniel Delaney (Robert Mitchum) to commemorate their victory twenty-five years ago, but they have serious personal issues: George is facing strong competition in the next election, Phil is having an affair with George's wife, Delaney has health problems and Tom is an alcoholic.  This is actor/playwright Miller's only film as a director - he adapted his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play to the screen (with funding from Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus) - but it's an unengaging (and frankly pathetic) portrait of men whose one "shining moment" in life is well behind them, and they exist as a group of middle-aged sad-sacks who cling desperately to memories of success in their youth.  To add to the despair is not just the city of Scranton (which appears virtually deserted) but Bill Conti's dirge-like score - the cast is well-chosen, but all they're left to do is mope and snap at each other.