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Original title: Natural, The
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 3, 2001
• R2: 28 May 2001
Budget $28,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 14 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Delphi II, TriStar Pictures
Studio Tri-Star, TriStar
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Other Titles
• The Natural (1984)
• Der Unbeugsame (1984)
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Genre: Drama, Sports, Love, Femme Fatale, Period Piece
Tagline: Boyhood dreams, a bat made from a tree struck by lightning and most importantly, a never-ending passion for the game.
Plot: Farm boy Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is the best baseball player anyone has ever seen. His bat, handmade from the wood of a tree felled by lightning following the death of his father, is magic in his hands. But before his career can start, the mysterious Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey) inexplicably shoots him, sidelining him for more than a decade. Fifteen years later, Hobbs returns to play for the New York Knights, whose coach, Pop Fisher (Wilfred Brimley), begrudgingly accepts the aging rookie as a member of the team. Pop is as surprised as the rest of the team when Hobbs knocks the ball out of the park time and again and can still play a mean outfield as well. However, when the politics of the business side of the game get in the way, Hobbs has to make some life-changing decisions. Meanwhile, he becomes involved with Memo Paris (Kim Basinger), a sultry siren with her own agenda. Glenn Close plays Iris, the hometown girl whom Hobbs left behind but never forgot. Director Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN) manages to re-create the excitement of old-time baseball while telling an all-American tale of success and failure, based on the novel by Bernard Malamud.
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The Recruit, In the Company of Spies, Hawaii Five-0 |
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