Chin Music
A Summary
Logline: Years after a traumatic brush back ends the career of a promising baseball star, Noah Harcourt struggles to overcome his head injury and station in life for a chance to rebuild a local little league team and himself in the process.
Noah Harcourt, once the wonder kid of the Nashville Sounds baseball team, is on the street coaching homeless people in the finer points of baseball. He drinks away his problems, sees former teammates that aren’t there, and his conscience takes the form of a stuffed armadillo who regularly counsels him on what’s wrong with his life.
Noah lives alone in a rundown trailer way out in the woods, a trailer filled with clippings and stories about his career that once was. Always watching the little league kids from afar, one day Noah can stand their shortcomings no longer and emerges from the shadows to offer batting advice to little Joey. A haggard shell of his former self, Noah has the rep around town as “that weird-o guy who lives in the haunted trailer in the woods and eats worms”. This disadvantage, coupled with violent unpredictable headaches that leave him in tears, defines the present man but cannot stop the flow of baseball wisdom from Noah and his undeniable gift for coaching.
Coach Leonard has no use for the town bum and feels threatened by anyone that challenges his faulty coaching style. As things begin to turn around for the dismal Nashville Bisons little league team, the coach is relieved that his bullying style has finally taken root in the kids and is producing results. When an unsuspecting parent congratulates Coach Leonard on his gifted assistant coach, Noah, the cat is out of the bag on the team’s secret coaching sessions with the former baseball great, and Coach Leonard is none too pleased. Dispatching his son to take care of the matter once and for all, the coach ultimately gets a lesson of his own when Noah returns a new man and leads the Bisons to the playoffs and beyond.