The story is about an unknown middle-aged
batter named Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) with a mysterious past, who appears out
of nowhere to join a struggling team as a rookie in the 1930’s, much to the
disgust of coach Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley) who thinks the teams owner The
Judge (Robert Prosky) is deliberately trying to scupper the team, so he refuses
to play Hobbs on principle.
But he does have an ally in assistant coach
Red Blow (Richard Farnsworth) and eventually Pop relents and Hobbs takes a
losing baseball team to the top of the league with the aid of a bat cut from a
lightning struck tree.
But it soon becomes apparent that it’s more
important to the Judge that the team fail and when bribes don’t work, femme
fatal Memo Paris (Kim Basinger) tries to distract him, and it appears to be
working until his childhood sweetheart Iris Gaines (Glenn Close) appears one
day in the stands and gets him back on track.
It takes reporter Max Mercy (Robert Duvall) to
uncover the story of Roy Hobbs mysterious past as he begins to bask in the fame
he should have had earlier in his life when, as a rising pitcher, he was
inexplicably shot by a young woman, Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey) in a hotel
room.
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