Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14187 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-06
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 118 minutes

Synopsis
Farm boy Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is the best baseball player anyone has ever seen. His bat, handmade from the wood of a tree felled by lightning following the death of his father, is magic in his hands. But before his career can start, the mysterious Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey) inexplicably shoots him, sidelining him for more than a decade. Fifteen years later, Hobbs returns to play for the New York Knights, whose coach, Pop Fisher (Wilfred Brimley), begrudgingly accepts the aging rookie as a member of the team. Pop is as surprised as the rest of the team when Hobbs knocks the ball out of the park time and again and can still play a mean outfield as well. However, when the politics of the business side of the game get in the way, Hobbs has to make some life-changing decisions. Meanwhile, he becomes involved with Memo Paris (Kim Basinger), a sultry siren with her own agenda. Glenn Close plays Iris, the hometown girl whom Hobbs left behind but never forgot. Director Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN) manages to re-create the excitement of old-time baseball while telling an all-American tale of success and failure, based on the novel by Bernard Malamud.

Customer Reviews

the natural
This is an excellent film with a great story line watch time and time again.

Real Passion and Real Courage

This story is about a young boy from the country side who appears to be a very promising baseball player. Encouraged by his father, he leaves home on a train in order to participate in his first qualifying match. During the trip, however, a major incident changes his life. But after sixteen years of absence from baseball and despite his advanced age, he returns to the base ball field determined to make baseball his profession. The story continues to tell about the obstacles he has to overcome, the competition among players and the unfairness of professional interest by game organisers. It is a delightful movie, conjuring up an atmosphere of courage, warm humanity and sport with its most noble principles.