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Bull Durham
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.
1988 · Directed by Ron Shelton · 108 min · Comedy · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Romance is a lot like baseball. It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
Plot
The Durham Bulls, a single-A minor league baseball team, are dealing with another sparsely attended losing season, with one thing working for them: Ebby Calvin LaLoosh, a hotshot rookie pitcher known for having a "million dollar arm, but a five cent head," who has potential to become a major league talent. "Crash" Davis, a 12-year veteran in the minor leagues, is sent down from Triple-A as the team's catcher to teach LaLoosh to control his haphazard pitching. Crash immediately begins calling Ebby by the degrading nickname "Meat", and they get off to a rocky start.
Thrown into the mix is Annie, a "baseball groupie" and lifelong spiritual seeker who has latched onto the "Church of Baseball" and has, every year, chosen one player on the Bulls to be her lover and student. Annie flirts with both Crash and Ebby and invites them to her house, but Crash walks out, saying he's too much of a veteran to "try out" for anything. But before he leaves, Crash sparks Annie's interest with a memorable speech listing the things he "believes in", ending with, "I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days... Good night".
Despite some animosity between them, Annie and Crash work, in their own ways, to shape Ebby into a big-league pitcher. Annie plays mild bondage games, reads poetry to him, gets him to try different mental approaches to pitching, and gives him the nickname "Nuke", after Annie compares his overeagerness to a "nuclear meltdown."
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Ron Shelton
- Cinematography: Bobby Byrne
- Edited by: Robert Leighton, Adam Weiss
- Music: Michael Convertino
- Production design: Armin Ganz
- Produced by: Mark Burg, Thom Mount
Cast
- Kevin Costner as Crash Davis
- Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy
- Tim Robbins as Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh
- Trey Wilson as Skip
- Robert Wuhl as Larry
- William O'Leary as Jimmy
- David Neidorf as Bobby
- Danny Gans as Deke
- Tom Silardi as Tony
- Jenny Robertson as Millie
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Mount Company, Orion Pictures
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Box office: $50,888,000
- Themes: jealousy, love triangle, sports, stadium, age difference, poem, baseball, trainer, pitcher, flirt
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