“His Last Game:” A 2015 Movie Based on Brian Doyle’s (’78) Story about His Terminally-Ill Brother Kevin Doyle ‘69

Post #395, 17 May 2018

Brian Doyle ’78 (d. 2017) wrote an article for the autumn 2012 issue of the Notre Dame Magazine titled “His Last Game” (link). That heart-warming story described an afternoon he spent with his terminally ill brother Kevin Doyle, our 1969 classmate who died of cancer in 2012. Director Avery Rimer made a ten-minute movie in 2015 based on Brian Doyle’s story. IMDb described the film:

Two brothers take a drive and notice a myriad of small, beautiful things rendered all the more exquisite by the older brother's terminal illness.

Click on this link to watch the heart-warming movie and read about the film’s cast and crew

Classmate Mike Petersmith brought the movie to my attention through a post on Facebook. Mike, his future wife Kathy Tonn, and Dick Farrell were classmates at Alleman High School in Rockland Island, Illinois with Kevin Doyle’s wife, Jane Bates Doyle. Mike, Kathy, and Jane have stayed in touch through the years.

John Kevin Doyle, 1969

Merrick, New York

B.S., Mathematics

Brian James Doyle, 1978

A.B., English

Related Blog Links and Sources:

* In Memoriam: The Deceased Undergraduates of the Notre Dame Class of 1969 (link)

* John Kevin Doyle PH.D., PMP Obituary, Chicago Suburban Daily, 27 June 2012. (link)

* Rachel Rippetoe, “Brian Doyle, author and Portland Magazine editor, dies at 60,” The Beacon, 27 May 2017. (link)

* “His Last Game,” IMBd. (link)

* What is His Last Game? – Indiegogo. (link)

* John Kevin Doyle, 1969 Dome, p. 271.

* Brian James Doyle, 1978 Dome, p. 28/seniors.