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“The Natural” could have been a decent movie. One reason that it is not: Of all its characters, the only one we don’t want to know more about is Roy Hobbs. I’d love to get to know Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), the cynical, old team manager.
- Dana Hanson-Firestone
- The movie was inspired by a real story. In 1949 a woman who was stalking one of the baseball players in Chicago, actually shot a player with a gun. This inspired Bernard Malamud to write a book about it in 1952.
- The woman who committed the crime disappeared. For many years, the woman who committed the crime of shooting the ball player seemed to disappear off the radar.
- Steinhagen was a teenager at the time. At the time of the shooting, Ruth Ann Steinhagen was only 19 years old. This seemed to be a senseless shooting, but as investigators dug a little deeper they discovered that she had developed a crush o teh first baseman Eddie Waitkus of the Chicago Cubs.
- Steinhagen invited the player to her hotel room. Ruth reserved a hotel room near Wrigley field and wrote a note to Waitkus telling him that she had something important to share with him.
The Natural is a 1984 American sports film based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky and Richard Farnsworth.
May 10, 2019 · It’s no accident, for example, that Roy’s childhood love, Iris (Glenn Close), radiates angelic light when she reappears in his life nearly two decades later. And in the middle of his climactic ...
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- Ethan Alter
Robert Redford plays an aging rookie who takes the baseball world by storm in one season while dealing with demons from his past and present. While remaining faithful to Bernard Malamud’s 1952...
The heroic score, by perennial Oscar nominee Randy Newman, is one of his best. And the cinematography, by Caleb Deschanel, contains moments of visual poetry. Taken as a whole, The Natural is a movie of many special moments that add up to a minor epic where the human element is magnified, not diminished, by the spectacle.
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The Natural is my favourite baseball movie. The actors give fantastic performances, there are clever twists and Robert Redford gives one of his best renditions ever as Roy Hobbs.
