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The Natural (1984)

PG 05/11/1984 (US) Drama 2h 17m

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He lived for a dream that wouldn't die.

Overview

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.

Barry Levinson

Director
Bernard Malamud

Novel
Roger Towne

Screenplay
Phil Dusenberry

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Robert Redford

Roy Hobbs
Robert Duvall

Max Mercy
Glenn Close

Iris Gaines
Kim Basinger

Memo Paris
Wilford Brimley

Pop Fisher
Barbara Hershey

Harriet Bird
Robert Prosky

The Judge
Richard Farnsworth

Red Blow
Joe Don Baker

The Whammer
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The Natural is directed by Barry Levinson and adapted to screenplay by Roger Towne & Phil Dusenberry from the novel written by Bernard Malamud. It stars Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky and Richard Farnsworth. Music is by Randy Newman and cinematography by Caleb Deschanel.

The Natural is a wistful sports movie, one that asks every person who views it to buy into the whimsy and mythologising on show. If able to do that then it's a film of beguiling beauty, awash with strength of the human spir... read the rest.

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