Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "baseball movie"

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Cobb **** (1994, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich) – Classic Movie Review 10,204

Tommy Lee Jones scores as baseball’s greatest hitter, the game’s most feared and hated player, in writer-director Ron Shelton’s compelling 1995 sports biopic Cobb, based on the article and book by Al Stump. All-time baseball […]

Aug, 20

The Stratton Story *** (1949, James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams) – Classic Movie Review 7873

Director Sam Wood’s 1949 hit The Stratton Story stars the popular star pair of James Stewart and June Allyson, and is based on an Oscar-winning Best Motion Picture Story by Douglas Morrow. Morrow also co-writes the […]

Dec, 02

Fear Strikes Out *** (1957, Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7,140

The 1957 drama film Fear Strikes Out stars young Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, a shy, fearful youth plunged into mental turmoil over his father (Karl Malden)’s overpowering need to make him a baseball player. […]

Jun, 09

The Natural **** (1984, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger and Barbara Hershey, Wilford Brimley, Robert Prosky) – Classic Movie Review 4071

Still in his golden boy era, Robert Redford stars as captain of the all-star actor team that director Barry Levinson has recruited for his 1984 comedic and mystical sports drama fable about a Thirties baseball […]

Jul, 24

Bull Durham **** (1988, Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 2732

Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1988 sports comedy drama finally did the trick for Kevin Costner, who hits a home run and shoots to stardom as Crash Davis, a cynical, veteran baseball catcher taken on by North […]

Jul, 22

Million Dollar Arm *** (2014, John Hamm, Lake Bell, Alan Arkin) – Movie Review

John Hamm stars as down-on-his-luck American sports agent JB Bernstein, who stages an unconventional career-reviving scheme after watching images Susan Boyle singing I Had a Dream in her viral video performance and Indian cricketers in quick succession […]

Aug, 28

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