The Natural
Summary:
The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a farm boy with a hankering to be a great baseball player. With his faithful home... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Robert Redford - (Roy Hobbs)
Robert Duvall - (Max Mercy)
Glenn Close - (Iris Gaines)
Kim Basinger - (Memo Paris)
Wilford Brimley - (Pop Fisher)
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Review:
Based on Bernard Malamud's book, Barry Levinson's baseball epic is a carefully-wound extrapolation of the original. The all-American Robert Redford's Biblical qualities made him the perfect fit for wunderkind player Roy Hobbs. The plot takes shape slowly, drawn out in painstaking detail to make the payoff all the more memorable. As the thr... Continue >>
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