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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 0043396184084
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 001000
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageUnknownEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledJapaneseSubtitledFrenchDubbedUnknownJapaneseDubbedUnknownPortugueseDubbed
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: TM2554
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 144 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 1984
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom. Robert Redford stars in this inspiring fable that begins when 14-year-old Hobbs (Redford) fashions a powerful bat from a fallen oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability, fixing his extraordinary talent in the mind of sportswriter Max Mercy (Duvall), who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. But a meeting with a mysterious woman shatters his dream. Years pass and an older Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights. Overcoming physical pain and defying those who have a stake in seeing the Knights lose, Hobbs, with his boyhood bat, has his chance to lead the Knights to the pennant and to finally fulfill his dream. Available Subtitles: English, French, Japanese Available Audio Tracks: English (Unknown Format), Japanese (Unknown Format), French (Unknown Format) "A Natural Gunned Down" The stalking of Eddie Waitkus featurette"Clubhouse Conversations" featurette"Extra Innings 1: Slow Motion" featurette"Extra Innings 2: Uniform Color" featurette"Extra Innings 3: The Sandberg Game" featurette"Extra Innings 4: The President?s Question" featuretteThe mythology of The Natural featurette "The Heart of The Natural" featuretteThree "Creating The Natural" featurettesVideo Introduction by Barry LevinsonDigitally Remastered Audio and Video
Amazon.com essential video:
From the sun-dappled heartland, a young man (Robert Redford, in soft lighting) emerges as maybe the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. On his way to the majors, he is cut down by an enigmatic black widow (Barbara Hershey) and vanishes for many years. When he reemerges, a silent mystery, he lands a spot with the New York team and begins tearing up the league--he's still the natural. Fans of the Bernard Malamud novel will be dismayed at the pure mythical hokum of this film, but baseball fanatics have been known to watch and rewatch this one; after all, it's constructed as a kind of shrine to the national pastime. Barry Levinson (Rain Man) directs the movie with an unabashed devotion to the game, although the film could use more of the realities of chewing tobacco and pine tar. Redford is fine, and Kim Basinger and Oscar-nominated Glenn Close are effective as the women in his life. The crowning touch is the soaring, extraordinary music by Randy Newman, the singer-songwriter turned orchestral composer. --Robert Horton
Amazon.com:
Director Barry Levinson mentions in his video introduction the 1984 movie was rushed to theaters and this 2007 DVD is more the film he originally intended. This "director's cut" adds about 15 minutes of footage and deletes 5. It tightens the first third of the film, yet any fan of the lyrical prologue set in perfect synchronization with Randy Newman's score will be disappointed. Now the beginning is told in flashback as the elder Hobbs returns home. (It's also confusing to keep track of which Hobbs story you are watching when they are both on a train.) The changes do not improve the story or character; it simply packs in more information before Hobbs enters the Knight's dugout. After that, there are a few new scenes and many extensions, most involving Memo (Kim Basinger) and Red (Richard Farnsworth). None of the additions are exceptional. One could hope there is an Easter egg with the remastered original edition. What is on the second disc are above-average featurettes with interviews from most of the major talent. The best little ditties includes Newman's playful "lyrics" to his theme music and Levinson's divulgence that he is the radio play-by-play man. There's a good discussion on adapting (and changing) the novel, the allegorical myths, and the real-life inspirations including a heart-felt segment on Eddie Waitkus, a baseball player who was shot by an obsessed fan. A 5.1 Dolby soundtrack is now available and compliments an excellent video upgrade. --Doug Thomas
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Roy Hobbs path to glory will reel you in, in this outstanding baseball movie...it's all fiction...but it seems so real. In one scene Hobbs, played by Robert Redford, knocks the cover off the baseball and nothing is left but a gobbled mess of strings. The opposing players and coaches look on in amazement. And so will you as you follow Hobbs through an assortment of characters...including amazing character actors like Wilfred Brimley, Richard Farnsworth and Robert Duvall, just to name a few. The cast ... Read More
Rating:  -
The Bottom Line:
A baseball movie that knows nothing about the sport (Roy Hobbs is a pitcher the first time we see him and, inexplicably, a slugging right fielder the next time he's on screen) and attempts to impose a larger-than-life mythological feel on a simple story that manifestly cannot support it, The Natural is an overlong, overrated, and unenjoyable film that didn't even have the guts to follow its source novel to the dark conclusion the plot warrants.
2/4
Rating: -
...and so does The Natural. I've become a fan all over again.
NOTE: This review concerns the 2007 two-disc DVD director's cut.
I loved the orginal version of the 1984 baseball film classic, but IMO director Barry Levinson's reworking of his own film has improved it. In his brief video introduction to this edition, he explains why he dared to tamper with success.
Levinson's recutting of the opening sequence, utilizing flashbacks with some previously unseen footage, ... Read More
Rating: -
When I first saw The Natural, I knew I was watching a classic or future classic. Robert Redford gives a great performance as both a 19 year old and a 35 year old Roy Hobbs. While he does look a lot older than 19 during the early part of the movie, it is passable. The "middle aged rookie" 16 years later is just 35. I always laugh when I see and hear his manager say, "Fellow, you don't start playing ball at your age, you RETIRE." Like the guy is so old! He's only 35. Oh well.
The entire ... Read More
Rating: -
To say that I am a fan of this movie would be an understatement. I was in Buffalo while they were filming it, but had no clue about the book as, even as a hard core baseball fan and baseball book fan, I had never read it.
I did read it after I saw the movie when it came out in 1984 and I am glad that the ending of the book was changed. The overall tone of the movie would not lead you to believe that Roy Hobbs would do nothing less than what he did in the movie.
I have watched all ... Read More
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