‘That Championship Season’

1:38 PM PST 3/10/2011 by David Rooney

Jason Patric stars in a restaging of his father’s Pulitzer-winning Broadway hit, which despite polish and an able cast, hasn’t aged well.

A drama about the bitter recriminations of a generation of men stung by the reality of their diminished promise and feeling let down by their leaders should strike chords in this rudderless age of epidemic disillusionment. So why does this deluxe revival of such a celebrated play as That Championship Season fall flat?