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The Natural (Director's Cut) (Blu-ray)
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DVD Features:
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 3, 2007
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Sony Pictures
- Director's Cut
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dubbed - French, Japanese, Portuguese - Optional
- Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
- Subtitles - English, French, Japanese, Portuguese - Optional
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Redford, Glenn Close & Robert Duvall | |
Performer: | Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, Michael Madsen, John Finnegan, Alan Fudge, Jon Van Ness & Mike Starr | |
Directed by | Barry Levinson | |
Edited by | Stu Linder | |
Composition by | Randy Newman | |
Produced by | Mark Johnson | |
Director of Photography: | Caleb Deschanel |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"'There goes Roy Hobbs...the best there ever was....'"
- Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford)
"Some mistakes you never stop paying for."
- Hobbs
Entertainment Reviews:
Let yourself go and be rewarded by the sight of a hero running home to victory through clouds of fire.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
Being a baseball fan involves repeatedly experiencing exquisite pain and exquisite joy. Well, there's a lot of both in The Natural.
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Chicago Tribune
Redford's charisma is at full wattage and the finale is truly magical.
Uncut
The scouting report on The Natural has to read: lots of tools but no heart.
People Magazine
The Natural is an impeccably made, but quite strange, fable about success and failure in America.
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Variety
Rating: B- --
Barry Levinson deviates considerably from the wry, ironic tone of Malamud's novel, and if the film is mildly enjoyable it's due to the acting of the supporting cast and polished production values.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 2/4 --
The message is: Baseball is purely and simply a matter of divine intervention. At about the 130-minute mark, I got the idea that God's only begotten son was playing right field for the New York team.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Farm boy Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is the best baseball player anyone has ever seen. His bat, handmade from the wood of a tree felled by lightning following the death of his father, is magic in his hands. But before his career can start, the mysterious Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey) inexplicably shoots him, sidelining him for more than a decade. Fifteen years later, Hobbs returns to play for the New York Knights, whose coach, Pop Fisher (Wilfred Brimley), begrudgingly accepts the aging rookie as a member of the team. Pop is as surprised as the rest of the team when Hobbs knocks the ball out of the park time and again and can still play a mean outfield as well. However, when the politics of the business side of the game get in the way, Hobbs has to make some life-changing decisions. Meanwhile, he becomes involved with Memo Paris (Kim Basinger), a sultry siren with her own agenda. Glenn Close plays Iris, the hometown girl whom Hobbs left behind but never forgot. Director Barry Levinson (DINER, RAIN MAN) manages to re-create the excitement of old-time baseball while telling an all-American tale of success and failure, based on the novel by Bernard Malamud.
Plot Synopsis:
This allegorical tale of success and failure in America tells the story of a natural born baseball player who should have been a star but gets a last chance to shine. Randy Newman's memorable score complements an excellent directorial effort by Barry Levinson.
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Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: May 11, 1984.
- Filmed in Buffalo and New York City.
- The film version has a vastly different ending than Bernard Malamud's novel.
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- Sales Rank: 13,546
- UPC: 043396184084
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