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The Natural is a 1984 American sports film based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky and Richard Farnsworth.
May 11, 1984 · The Natural: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger. A middle-aged unknown comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent.
On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey). After 16 years, Hobbs returns to pro baseball...
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The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud, and is his debut novel. The story follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked after being shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious.
Let's begin at the end of "The Natural". Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a middle-aged ballplayer making his comeback. It's the last out of the last inning of the crucial play-off game, and everything depends on him. He's been in a slump. Can his childhood sweetheart, Iris Gaines (Glenn Close), snap him out of it? She sends him a note revealing that ...
Fifteen years later, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), the manager of the New York Knights, discovers he has a new "rookie" for his team, a thirty-four-year-old man named Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford), whom the team's owner, the stingy Judge Banner (Robert Prosky), has signed for a paltry $500.
The Natural (4K UHD) Using a bat carved from a lightning-struck tree, a mysterious middle-aged player comes out of nowhere to become a big-time baseball slugger. With Glenn Close, Kim Basinger. 3,626 IMDb 7.4 2 h 17 min 1984. X-Ray HDR UHD 13+.
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The Natural. Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom. Robert Redford stars in this inspiring fable that begins when...
Overview. An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league. Barry Levinson. Bernard Malamud. Roger Towne. Phil Dusenberry. Written by Peter McGinn on September 19, 2020.
