“The Good Doctor: The Dwight Gooden Story” (**1/2 out of four) was a well-told, if not revelatory, documentary of pitcher Dwight Gooden who skyrocketed to fame as the Cy Young-winning pitcher for the Mets when he was only 19 but his pitching skills and career derailed in a hail of cocaine and alcohol abuse and arrests. An interesting look at a shy kid with a gift for baseball who was unprepared for the pressures and rush of NYC and fame. Unfortunately, due to time constraints film’s second half of his downward spiral feels truncated and superficial and film’s ending feels rushed. Many good interviews, though, with former Mets stars Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry, and the Doctor himself.

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