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The Natural
The Natural tells the story of legendary player Roy Hobbs, an individual with great 'natural' baseball talent, who has always tried his best to fulfill his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom. And this movie will show you spanning decades of Roy's success and his suffering.
22 September 1921, San Antonio, Texas, USA
7 May 1922, Spokane, Washington, USA
25 September 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 February 1948, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 February 1968, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
April 26, 2015
It's all very corny and much of it's almost alarmingly overbaked... Yet it works.
January 26, 2006
Let yourself go and be rewarded by the sight of a hero running home to victory through clouds of fire.
July 13, 2010
...silly, repetitive, episodic, mannered...
August 20, 2011
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.
May 06, 2014
If you can suspend disbelief and let yourself be drawn into the movie, you'll be rewarded with an emotional and heart-warming experience that will have you cheering.
March 21, 2007
The Natural is an impeccably made, but quite strange, fable about success and failure in America.
March 25, 2011
An otherwise fine sports fantasy is dragged down by an overindulgence in sentimentality.
March 21, 2007
I've just about had it with directors who use the mythic mode as an alibi for unshaded characterizations, simpleminded plotting, and swells of artificial emotionality.
October 23, 2004
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.
March 21, 2011
Levinson must have felt he had to swing for the fences. He can be forgiven for choking up with all The Natural's fans looking on dubiously. In fairness, the official scorer must credit him with a single. And Redford with an RBI.
May 06, 2014
The scouting report on The Natural has to read: lots of tools but no heart.