| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Robert Redford |
Roy Hobbs
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| Robert Duvall |
Max Mercy
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| Glenn Close |
Iris Gaines
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| Kim Basinger |
Memo Paris
|
| Wilford Brimley |
Pop Fisher
|
| Barbara Hershey |
Harriet Bird
|
| Robert Prosky |
The Judge
|
| Richard Farnsworth |
Red Blow
|
| Joe Don Baker |
The Whammer
|
| John Finnegan |
Sam Simpson
|
| Alan Fudge |
Ed Hobbs
|
| Paul Sullivan Jr. |
Young Roy
|
| Rachel Hall |
Young Iris
|
| Robert Rich III |
Ted Hobbs
|
| Michael Madsen |
Bartholomew 'Bump' Bailey
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama |
| Director |
Barry Levinson |
| Producer |
Mark Johnson |
| Writer |
Bernard Malamud; Roger Towne; Phil Dusenberry |
| Studio |
Columbia / TriStar |
|
| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
134 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
|
| Plot |
| From the sun-dappled heartland, a young man (Robert Redford, in soft lighting) emerges as maybe the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. On his way to the majors, he is cut down by an enigmatic black widow (Barbara Hershey) and vanishes for many years. When he reemerges, a silent mystery, he lands a spot with the New York team and begins tearing up the league--he's still the natural. Fans of the Bernard Malamud novel will be dismayed at the pure mythical hokum of this film, but baseball fanatics have been known to watch and rewatch this one; after all, it's constructed as a kind of shrine to the national pastime. Barry Levinson (Rain Man) directs the movie with an unabashed devotion to the game, although the film could use more of the realities of chewing tobacco and pine tar. Redford is fine, and Kim Basinger and Oscar-nominated Glenn Close are effective as the women in his life. The crowning touch is the soaring, extraordinary music by Randy Newman, the singer-songwriter turned orchestral composer. --Robert Horton |
| Personal Details |
| My Rating |
5 |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
271 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Links |
IMDB
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| Edition Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| Barcode |
043396046092 |
| Chapters |
28 |
| Release Date |
4/6/2004 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish; French; Portuguese; Chinese; Korean; Thai |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 4.0 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Stereo
PORTUGUESE: Dolby Digital Stereo |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Dolby Widescreen |
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