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The Legend of Bagger Vance

  • 20002000
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
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A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
58K
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    • Robert Redford
    • Steven Pressfield(novel)
    • Jeremy Leven(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Will Smith
    • Matt Damon
    • Charlize Theron
    • Robert Redford
    • Steven Pressfield(novel)
    • Jeremy Leven(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Will Smith
    • Matt Damon
    • Charlize Theron
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    • 294User reviews
    • 92Critic reviews
    • 47Metascore
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    Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
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    Will Smith, Matt Damon, and J. Michael Moncrief in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Will Smith, Matt Damon, and J. Michael Moncrief in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Charlize Theron and Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Will Smith and Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Bagger agrees to hire Hardy Greaves as Rannulph Junnuh's forecaddie
    Matt Damon stars as Rannulph Junuh

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    Will Smith
    Will Smith
    • Bagger Vance
    Matt Damon
    Matt Damon
    • Rannulph Junuh
    Charlize Theron
    Charlize Theron
    • Adele Invergordon
    Bruce McGill
    Bruce McGill
    • Walter Hagen
    Joel Gretsch
    Joel Gretsch
    • Bobby Jones
    J. Michael Moncrief
    J. Michael Moncrief
    • Hardy Greaves
    Peter Gerety
    Peter Gerety
    • Neskaloosa
    Lane Smith
    Lane Smith
    • Grantland Rice
    Michael O'Neill
    Michael O'Neill
    • O.B. Keeler
    Thomas Jay Ryan
    Thomas Jay Ryan
    • Spec Hammond
    Trip Hamilton
    • Frank Greaves
    Dermot Crowley
    Dermot Crowley
    • Dougal McDermott
    Harve Presnell
    Harve Presnell
    • John Invergordon
    Danny Nelson
    • McManus
    Bob Penny
    Bob Penny
    • Laidlaw
    Michael McCarty
    • Delahunty
    Carrie Preston
    Carrie Preston
    • Idalyn Greaves
    Turner Green
    • Eugene James
      • Robert Redford
      • Steven Pressfield(novel)
      • Jeremy Leven(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Originally, the lead roles were going to be played by Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford. But, after careful consideration, Redford decided that the movie would work better with younger men playing Bagger Vance and Rannulph Junuh.
    • Goofs
      Having the best score on the 17th, Junuh should have teed-off first on the 18th tee, not last.
    • Quotes

      Bagger Vance: Yep... Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Somethin' we was born with... Somethin' that's ours and ours alone... Somethin' that can't be taught to ya or learned... Somethin' that got to be remembered... Over time the world can, rob us of that swing... It get buried inside us under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas... Some folk even forget what their swing was like...

    • Crazy credits
      The DreamWorks logo, the 20th Century Fox logo, and the opening credits are all silent when the film opens, except for the sound of the wind and crickets of the golf course.
    • Connections
      Featured in HBO First Look: The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Tres Jolie Op. 159
      Composed by Emil Waldteufel (as Emile Waldteufel)

    User reviews294

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    8/10
    The best movie I've seen to become present yourself
    You know, there's basically only two ways you can watch movies. You either use them as food for the thinking mind, or you simply sit back and see where it takes you, as if it's the first thing you've ever seen.

    In the first way, your mind generates expectations of what it will get to consume. Then it will be presented its food for consumption, and it will start up its filters in order to judge whether the food is good or bad. And every time you think you can fit it with a negative label, you will gladly make known that you made that recognition.

    In the other way, you enter the movie fully and openly, without expectations. And as the experience unfolds, you feel into the characters and relate it to your own being.

    From the first perspective, this movie is not very good. It's slow, a bit airy-fairy, and the plot quite boring. Your mind will probably already know what's going to happen all the time, and find plenty of negative labels it can paste onto the movie. On to the next one, the next thing to consume, it will tell you.

    From the other perspective, this is one of the best movies if not the best ever created in the history of humanity, if you ask me. It gradually unfolds into showing how R. Junuh (Matt Damon) becomes more present in where he is, as he makes crucial steps in his mind and lets go of the baggage that remains inside of it. By following this process and relating to it ourselves, this movie is a wonderful tool for becoming more present and being masterful in whatever we happen to be doing in our own lives.

    Bagger Vance (Will Smith) basically tells that the only thing that Junuh can do in order to win this game of golf is let go of his thoughts. The thoughts that tell him who he is or should be in relation to others, what he feels about the present 'situation', or what he needs to do in order to succeed. He learns that he needs to simply drop that self-centeredness, essentially that whining child inside, and let the moment that is already there take him over instead of his mind.

    By doing so ourselves during the movie, we might become more present too as our thoughts fade to the background and as we become more aware of what's going on around us, instead of being absorbed only in what's going on inside the screen, behind the electronic window. We can get into that state where we feel our environment, where we drop all mental baggage, and where we can simply excel in what we do, whatever it is that apparently wants to be done through us. We can remember how it was before all the mental conditioning started somewhere in our childhood, and become present again. That's the real potential of this movie, the experience it can drag you into. Which is much better than a temporary pleasure, if you ask me.

    And is that not the only thing to do in this game we call life? Is that not the ultimate teaching that the Bhagavad Gita and ultimately the mystical branches of all religions point to? In this movie, it's not Bagger Vance that awakens R. Junuh, it simply all happens pretty much independently of anything, in the true experiential recognition of itself. And that's really all we need to know, and the limit of all that we can really get from any type of immersion in media content.
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    • Who narrates the film, plays the elderly Hardy?
    • The Ending of the Movie

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    • Release date
      • November 3, 2000 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Dreamworks Pictures
      • Epsilon Motion Pictures
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    • 2 hours 6 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital EX
      • SDDS
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