Synopsis
Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD, then worked for decades counseling drug abusers. Dock's soulful style defined 1970s baseball as he kept hitters honest and embarrassed the establishment. An ensemble cast of teammates, friends, and family investigate his life on the field, in the media, and out of the spotlight.
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Cast
- Dock P. Ellis Jr.Himself
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
“No No” is a jazzy, joyful exploration of a man that, if he wasn’t able to actually change the system, was at least happy with giving it the middle finger. - 78
Austin Chronicle
The film provides invaluable context in its detailing of institutional racism in the Sixties and Seventies and in its emphasis on Ellis as an advocate for equality and as a righteous shit-stirrer. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Radice has delivered an engaging portrait of a loose cannon back when professional sports still produced such unfiltered creatures, a man who lived by his own rules, said what he thought and wore curlers to practice when he felt like it. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
The fact is, Dock Ellis was...complicated. Probably a lot more so than No No makes him out to be. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
The film is fine in depicting Ellis' times, but it's mostly how he came to realize that he had a serious problem and turned his life around to become a drug-abuse counselor. He died in 2008 at age 63. - 70
Village Voice
There's enough diamond lore here to please baseball diehards, but Ellis's outsize life will grip even casual fans. - 70
The Dissolve
Despite the abbreviated ending, No No: A Dockumentary is nevertheless a compelling, deeply moving, fun look at the highs and lows of a bygone era. - 70
Los Angeles Times
[An] engaging portrait of a complicated but vivid sports figure.
