No, not Screwballs. They are not remaking another comedy classic…not yet at least. Take the touchy subject of PED use among major league ball players and add the cuteness of kids re-enacting the scenes and you have “Screwball.” A Miami-area “doctor” named Tony Bosch (who got his degree in Belize and had no license to write prescriptions in the U.S.) saw a way around more stringent drug testing. He started an anti-aging clinic (Florida, we learn, is an unregulated haven for quackery targeting the vain) and invented different protocols of micro-dosed supplements that didn’t show up in drug tests. An early client, baseball player Manny Ramirez, had such success with this system that he brought Bosch on the road with him. Then an A-list of MLB players soon followed including A-Rod, Ryan Braun, Bartolo Colon, and a ton of others. This looks like a perfect mix of documentary and light-heartedness. “Screwball” hits theaters March 29th.
