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Diner
Why this pick
Shared genres: Drama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1984 2h 17m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
The Natural
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
As a young boy growing up on a Nebraska farm in the 1910s, Roy Hobbs learns to play baseball from his father with whom he plays catch regularly. One afternoon, the elder Hobbs collapses underneath a mighty oak tree in front of their house and dies from a heart attack. Shortly thereafter, lightning strikes the oak tree during a thunderstorm, and splits the trunk down the middle. Hobbs takes a piece of the tree and carves it down into a baseball bat, using a wood burning kit to write the name “Wonderboy” into the barrel.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Robert Redford
Roy Hobbs
Kim Basinger
Memo Paris
Robert Duvall
Max Mercy
Richard Farnsworth
Red Blow
Robert Prosky
The Judge
Michael Madsen
Bump Bailey
Joe Don Baker
The Whammer
Glenn Close
Iris Gaines