The Natural

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Call Number: Blu-ray Drama Natural
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Blu-ray ; High Definition.
This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.
Based on the novel by Bernard Malamud.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1984; released as a Blu-ray DVD in 2010.
Special features include: When lightning strikes: creating The natural : pre-game: a novelists steps up to the plate :The line-up: assembling the moviemaking team :Let's play ball: filming the show ; Clubhouse conversations ; A natural gunned down: the stalking of Eddie Waitkus ; Knights in shining armor: the mythology of The natural ; extra innings ; The heart of Te natural.
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth.
Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. As a 14-year old he fashions a baseball bat from an oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has an opportunity to share in their race for the pennant.
DVD ; 1080p High Definition ; 1.85:1 ; English, French, Portuguese 5.1 DTS-HD MA ; Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, widescreen.
Contents: Natural.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Awesome submitted by mysterio on July 28, 2011, 1:26pm Awesome

Good but not great submitted by Will O on August 29, 2020, 3:06pm I liked 3/4 of this movie.
The Robert's, Redford and Duvall are excellent naturally, even if one of them is 47 playing a 35 year old and the other criminally underused.
I liked how it started and did not see the hotel scene coming but it started to lag in the middle and was maybe 20 minutes too long overall. They tried to make it overly dramatic with the off field stuff and I would have rather it been more focused on the Glenn Close and her son relationship than the Kim Basinger/bookie side storyline. One side story would have been enough to break up the actual games but it got bogged down and boring with too many sub-plots.
One thing done really well is that it showed how superstitious baseball players are and how that effects their game, when the camera pans to show all the lighting bolt patches the team had after Redford's previous brilliant game performance it struck me as something that has probably happened before.
Would like to see a tighter version of this but as it stands it was not terrible but not great.