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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 6432
Released: March 18, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls' new catcher, "Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner), punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), he's just been hired totrain. Then sexy Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bedand Nuke and Crash are this year's "draft picks." After Crash passes on the offer, Nuke eagerly enlists as Annie's summer fling...until Crash's jealousy takes over and he convinces Nuke that sex with Annie will jinx the Bulls' newfound winning streak!
Bull Durham (20th Anniversary Edition) Reviews:
Pretty good DVD if no Blu-Ray available 
2009-11-24 - This is a classic movie, but it isn't available on Blu Ray as of this writing. The transfer is better than okay. One forgets the language in those 80's movies!
Bull Durham
2009-08-30 - This is one of the two VERY best baseball movies ever. A working knowlege of baseball helps. I watch this movie every year just before Spring training just to get my baseball jices flowing. The other GREAT baseball movie is Major League.
Definitely not the greatest sports movie ever 
2009-08-02 - As a sports lover and someone who is moving to Durham, I could not wait to see this movie. However I found it boring. I cannot fathom why everyone loves it so much. I found the characters sad and one-sided. This one was lost on me.
Superb, essential
2009-05-25 - This is a great movie, well-written and perfectly cast from stars to bit parts. I actually like Kevin Costner's performance here, and that's saying something; he got kind of insufferable after this. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are both terrific. This is a superb comedy for grownups.
One good thing about this comedy, unlike most: It doesn't get cheesy laughs by dumping on anyone--everyone gets to be a person, not a device for yocks. This movie shares that unusual quality with another all-time top-ten: Local Hero. Get that one too.
The commentary track by director Ron Shelton is one of the best on any DVD I've heard; he's very articulate about the moviemaking process. The commentary by the two main actors is intermittently fun but less interesting.
A classic that actually hasn't aged so well 
2009-04-20 - A lot of what seemed so supreme and quirky about this movie now looks common place. Is that because it's been imitated a lot? Maybe partially. But there's also Shelton's showy screenwriting and habit of falling into cliche. And Sarandon's character, although the actress tries hard to fight it, is simply Shelton's wet dream. In the end, instead of being strong, she is Crash's very willing love slave.
Still worth it for Costner, Tim Robbins, and Robert Wuhl. And some great, hilarious, sad scenes.
