With B. Luciano Barsuglia, Kenny Connolly, Andrew Kubasek, Andrew Roberts, Kyle Roberts.
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Bull Durham isn’t just one of the greatest baseball movies ever made. It might be the movie that best understands baseball. This week on Winners, Losers, and Lovers, we’re joined by special guest Bill Van Veghel to revisit Ron Shelton’s 1988 sports-romantic-comedy starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and a young Tim Robbins.
We dig into the characters, the era, the humor, and the surprising realism behind the Durham Bulls and the decidedly unglamorous world of minor-league baseball. We also look at Ron Shelton near the height of his powers, Tim Robbins emerging as a major talent, Susan Sarandon absolutely at the top of her game, and Kevin Costner right on the verge of becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars.
And then there’s Crash Davis. He’s aging. He’s frustrated. He’s been around long enough to know exactly how the game works, and he knows Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh has the million-dollar arm that could take him somewhere Crash desperately wanted to stay. Meanwhile, Annie Savoy has her own ideas about baseball, religion, poetry, sex, and which member of the Durham Bulls will become her annual project.
Somehow, Shelton takes all of that and creates a movie that’s funny, sexy, romantic, melancholy, and remarkably authentic. So grab your shower shoes, don’t think because it can only hurt the ballclub, and join us as we revisit Bull Durham.
Is it an Old Print, Fresh Cut, or Timeless Classic?
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