Synopsis
Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.
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Cast
- Kevin CostnerCrash Davis
- Susan SarandonAnnie Savoy
- Tim RobbinsEbby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh
- Trey WilsonSkip
- Robert WuhlLarry
- William O'LearyJimmy
- David NeidorfBobby
- Danny GansDeke
- Tom SilardiTony
- Jenny RobertsonMillie
Recommendations
- 100
USA Today
Though his film is like no other baseball movie, it may remind you of Paul Newman's hockey comedy Slap Shot: a knowing look at sport's underbelly - punctuated by jelly-belly laughs. [15 June 1988] - 90
Los Angeles Times
It's just that when a movie is this close, with so much of the sports flavor (co-producer Thom Mount is co-owner of the real Durham Bulls), you like to see it perfect. [15 June 1988] - 90
Chicago Reader
The movie evokes Howard Hawks (in spirit if not to the letter) with its tight focus on a snug, obsessive world of insiders and camp followers where the exchanges between buddies and sexes have a euphoric stylishness and a giddy sense of ritual. - 90
Washington Post
It eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight. To borrow W.P. Kinsella's phrase, it has the thrill of the grass. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
A treasure of a movie because it knows so much about baseball and so little about love. - 80
Washington Post
You may catch yourself trying to remember where you parked a little before the end. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Successfully avoids the grandiose mythmaking that has been the bane of the baseball movie from ''Pride of the Yankees'' to ''The Natural.'' Rather than a vapid national epic, it is a warm, droll, deftly cracked romantic comedy. [15 June 1988] - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Even if baseball isn't your favorite sport, or if you don't like sports much at all, you'll find something to catch your attention in this smartly made (if unblushingly vulgar) new comedy. [7 July 1988]
