10 Michael Keaton Movies You've Never Even Heard Of

6. Game6

What is it?: Theatre vs baseball. When an actor grows a beard you know he means serious business, and they don't get more serious than this. Sharing some similarities to Birdman, this film follows Keaton in full self-torturing mode as a creative powder keg who starts feeling the pressure in the run up to the opening of a play he's penned. Extreme measures are resorted to, though they're more to do with murderous intention than imagining you're all big and feathery. The title refers to a World Series face-off between the Red Sox and Mets that boosts the testosterone in the movie's veins to mega levels. Michael Hoffman directed on a shoestring budget and Robert Downey Jr shared the screen with Keaton. However the presence of weighty wordsmith Don DeLillo on script duties possibly kept Game6 (not a typo) out of the commercial ballpark, the interplay between sport and male pride coming to the fore in lofty fashion.