Film · 1984 · Sports drama
The Natural
Directed by Barry Levinson
1984
★ 4.4 editorial score
Randy Newman's fanfare is the sound of American sport: Robert Redford plays a player who arrives too old and too late, and the film treats baseball as an outright myth.
“The story of Roy Hobbs's romantic quest to become ''the best there is'' - the player against whom all subsequent players will forever be measured to their disadvantage - is as magical, funny and sad as anything Mr. Malamud has ever written...Though Roy Hobbs is the quintessential small-town American boy of the 1920's, he has not only the strengths but also the flaws of the great heroes who survive outside their time.”
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1984Depicts 1930s
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