Robert Redford heads up a superb cast in this baseball as myth story, based on a novel by Bernard Malamud, which in turn is based on an Arthutian legend. Featured are Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Willard Brimley, and Richard Fanbsworth, among others. Redford is a natural talent who is injured and off the scene for 16 years, when he returns to the big leaguesand tries to make a comvback. The last part of the film was shot in the old War Memorial Stadium iin Buffalo, affectionately kinown there as "The Rockpile". The cinematography is purposely soft, to effect a nostalgic look at the game in the early part of the 20th century. Worth a look see.
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Topic - "The Natural" - rico 10:53:55 03/15/05 (6)
- Displacement of Arthurian myth - Bulkington 12:16:40 03/15/05 (2)
- Re: Displacement of Arthurian myth - rico 12:53:37 03/15/05 (0)
- Or Perceval. . . . - Bulkington 12:28:37 03/15/05 (0)
- What a bomb! It fails, quite obviuosly, - tinear 12:10:43 03/15/05 (0)
- I have mixed feelings about this one - padreken 11:17:46 03/15/05 (0)
- Re: "The Natural" - rico 10:58:52 03/15/05 (0)