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The Natural
The Natural tells the story of legendary player Roy Hobbs, an individual with great 'natural' baseball talent, who has always tried his best to fulfill his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom. And this movie will show you spanning decades of Roy's success and his suffering.
12 February 1936, Groesbeck, Texas, USA
10 February 1968, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
27 February 1944, Wichita, Kansas, USA
13 December 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 November 1950, Brooklyn, New York, USA
18 August 1926, New York City, New York, USA
27 January 1957, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
9 September 1928, New York, USA
8 December 1953, Athens, Georgia, USA
23 December 1957, Summitville, Indiana, USA
1 September 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 May 1912
August 20, 2011
Barry Levinson deviates considerably from the wry, ironic tone of Malamud's novel, and if the film is mildly enjoyable it's due to the acting of the supporting cast and polished production values.
July 13, 2010
...silly, repetitive, episodic, mannered...
May 06, 2014
The scouting report on The Natural has to read: lots of tools but no heart.
March 25, 2011
An otherwise fine sports fantasy is dragged down by an overindulgence in sentimentality.
January 26, 2006
Let yourself go and be rewarded by the sight of a hero running home to victory through clouds of fire.
May 06, 2014
If you can suspend disbelief and let yourself be drawn into the movie, you'll be rewarded with an emotional and heart-warming experience that will have you cheering.
March 21, 2011
Levinson must have felt he had to swing for the fences. He can be forgiven for choking up with all The Natural's fans looking on dubiously. In fairness, the official scorer must credit him with a single. And Redford with an RBI.
October 23, 2004
The message is: Baseball is purely and simply a matter of divine intervention. At about the 130-minute mark, I got the idea that God's only begotten son was playing right field for the New York team.
April 26, 2015
It's all very corny and much of it's almost alarmingly overbaked... Yet it works.
March 21, 2007
I've just about had it with directors who use the mythic mode as an alibi for unshaded characterizations, simpleminded plotting, and swells of artificial emotionality.
March 21, 2007
The Natural is an impeccably made, but quite strange, fable about success and failure in America.
