Word: horvath
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Despite an occasional scene that flares up with emotional violence and pain, The Trip Back Down is a play sadly lacking in astonishment. It repeats itself, it is predictable, and it is a soapy, sentimental bore. Bobby Horvath (John Cullum) is a middle-aging stock-car racer whose psyche is skidding on a wet track. His earlier dreams of flashing under the wire first in the Indianapolis 500 have now become the wearying nightmares of a perpetual loser. He has come home to Mansfield, Ohio, to recoup his losses, possibly by never racing again, but at least by making peace...