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The Natural (1984) -- An average baseball player comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.
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7.4/10   16,169 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Bernard Malamud (novel)
Roger Towne (writer) ...
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Release Date:
11 May 1984 (USA) more
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The best there was! more
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An average baseball player comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations more
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A 20th Century Fairy Tale more (132 total)

Cast

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Robert Redford ... Roy Hobbs

Glenn Close ... Iris Gaines

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

Jon Van Ness ... John Olsen
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Runtime:
134 min | USA:144 min (Director's Cut)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Barry Kivel's film debut more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Hobbs splits "Wonderboy", he tells the bat boy to pick him a winner. The bat boy gives him a bat called "Savoy Special". When Hobbs hits the game winning home run, supposedly with "Savoy Special" you can see the lightning bolt from "Wonderboy" in his hands. more
Quotes:
Roy Hobbs: The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it. more
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Referenced in The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) more
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STAR SPANGLED BANNER more

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18 out of 22 people found the following review useful.
A 20th Century Fairy Tale, 19 December 1998
10/10
Author: Loren-3 from Cleveland, OH

That's how I personally summed up this movie when I first saw it. And what better place to couch a fairy tale than in a milieu with real legends like Ruth and DiMaggio and Mantle ... or fabulous ones like "The Whammer" and Roy Hobbs. The story of a man playing the game they way it SHOULD be played, wishing while injured that his father could have seen him, and coming through in the clutch for his father, his lady, and his son. Beautifully shot by Caleb Deschanel, this isn't just a movie, this is ARTWORK.

And who could forget the soundtrack written by Randy Newman, which has found its way into virtually every sports show on the tube at one time or another. Without a doubt, his best handiwork.

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