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A movie review by James Berardinelli. Sometimes, pure technical accuracy isn't enough. Sometimes, artistry has to be taken into account. One such case in point is Barry Levision's The Natural, arguably the best baseball movie ever made. The film works not because it is flawless in its depiction of what transpires on the diamond (more on a ...
01 Jan 1984. Running Time: 134 minutes. Certificate: PG. Original Title: Natural, The. The first of Barry Levinson’s directing-only assignments, this sentimental period drama about a gifted ...
PDF Cite Share. The Natural is the account of a talented athlete who wants to play major league baseball more than anything in the world. The story opens when Roy Hobbs is about nineteen and ...
Mickey and Mallory become lost in the desert and encounter Warren Red Cloud, a Navajo Indian, and his pre-adolescent grandson. After the two fall asleep, the Navajo, hoping to expel the demon he perceives in Mickey, begins chanting beside the fire, invoking nightmares in Mickey about his abusive parents.
This quote is from the "Pre-Game" part of the novel, where the nineteen-year-old Roy strikes out the Whammer, an aging, Babe Ruth-like baseball star. This scene is significant for several reasons. First, it is the first example of Roy's raw talent. He is a "natural" who is able to strike out one of the game's best hitters.
After an earthquake hits Los Angeles, the family returns home. Jackson grows suspicious and rents a Cessna 340 to rescue his family. He collects his family and Gordon as the Earth crust displacement begins with a magnitude 10.9 earthquake, and they narrowly escape Los Angeles as California collapses into the Pacific Ocean.
Synopsis. In "the not-too-distant" future, where genetic engineering of humans is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining social class, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. Suffering from the nearly eradicated physical dysfunctions of myopia and a congenital heart defect, as well as being ...
