“The Natural” is a sports drama, based on the novel by Bernard Malamud and Directed by Barry Levinson.
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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