Babe Ruth Summary
Director: Mark Tinker
Genres: Drama
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Babe Ruth is a made-for-TV biopic about the titular baseball legend, here played by Stephen_Lang. The film covers the events of Babe's life from his orphanage childhood to his retirement from baseball in 1935. Recounted are Babe's two marriages, the first to the benighted Helen Woodford (Yvonne_Suhor) and the second to down-to-earth showgirl Claire Hodgson (Lisa_Zane); Babe's frequent tiltings with Col. Ruppert (Donald_Moffat), autocratic owner of the New_York_Yankees; Babe's periodic slumps and suspensions; his "wine, women, and more women" lifestyle; his unrealized dream of becoming a team manager; his record-breaking 60th home run in 1927; and his last-stand "three-homer" game for the Boston Braves in his valedictory 1935 season. Too rushed and surfacy to be totally successful, Babe Ruth is nonetheless closer to truth than the sentimentalized John_Goodman feature film The_Babe (1992), and infinitely superior to William_Bendix's atrocious The_Babe_Ruth_Story (1948). As a bonus, real-life baseball great Pete_Rose shows up in a one-minute cameo as Ty_Cobb. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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