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The Natural

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The Natural
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PG,2hrs 14min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1984
Director:
Barry Levinson
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close  ...more
Synopsis: 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 homemade bat "Wonderboy" in hand, Roy heads to the big city. En route, he arouses the fascination of the mysterious Harriet Bird ( Full Synopsis
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Mike DiBella, AMG 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 three women Roy encounters, Barbara Hershey, Kim Basinger and Glenn ... Full Review
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Robert Redford
Roy Hobbs
Robert Duvall
Max Mercy
Glenn Close
Iris Gaines
Kim Basinger
Memo Paris
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