| | | A romantic comedy about America's other favorite pastime.
Features: DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Spanish, Subtitled
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 to train. Then sexy Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed--and 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! Costner "strikes sparks" (Time) and Sarandon "gives one of the juiciest performances in all of American comedy" (Rolling Stone) in this "treasure of a movie" (Roger Ebert) about America's other favorite pastime!
"Two big thumbs up!" Siskel & Ebert
" ...funny, sexy, literate love story..." Newsweek
"Grand Slam! Bull Durham is smashing in evey department." Rolling Stone
"...loads its bases with laughter, romance, and tears..." People Magazine
Editor's Note
The Durham Bulls are in a slump and have spent a hefty sum of money acquiring an untested young pitcher in the hopes of reversing their standings. Crash Davis, a 12-year veteran ballplayer who has spent most of his time bumming around as a minor league catcher, is assigned to mature the rookie pitching phenom named "Nuke." But a beautiful and enigmatic team groupie comes between the tutor and his student, enlightening both with her game of life, love and verse.
Plot Summary
North Carolina's Durham Bulls have just acquired a hot new pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh, who has a Major League arm but Little League aim. The management has sent for veteran Minor League catcher Crash Davis to train the rookie and get him ready for the upcoming season. The team's biggest fan, an English professor at the local college, has a tradition of choosing one Bulls player each year to be her lover and baseball/poetry prodigy, and this year she must choose between two players that have caught her eye, the pitcher and the catcher. The two ball players bait each other on and off the field, compete for the woman's affections, and eventually, send the Bulls on a winning streak.
| Features | Audio Commentary by Director Ron Shelton | | 16x9 High Definition Transfer | | Trailers | | Photo Gallery | | "Sports Wrap" Featurette | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, & Portuguese | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French & Spanish Stereo Surround, Portuguese Mono | | Making-Of Documentary Including All-New Interviews with Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and More! | | New Audio Commentary by Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins | | Kevin Costner Profile |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 3/3/2009 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1988 | | Catalog ID: 100656 | | UPC: 00027616874801 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1989) | | | Ron Shelton, Nominee, Best Writing, Original Screenplay | |
Golden Globe (1989) | | | Susan Sarandon, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical |
| Memorable Quotes| "Some days you win. Some days you lose. And some days, it rains." ---- Baseball Proverb repeated by Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Shelton stepped up to the directorial plate and smacked a dinger....A wry, sexy charmer..." -- Rating: A 12/20/1996 pp.82-3New York Times
"...A film with spring fever, a giddy, playful look at life in baseball's minor leagues....[Costner] does a lot with his role..." 06/15/1988 p.C20 Los Angeles Times
"...A sweet and sexy comedy..." 06/15/1988 p.C1 USA Today
"...[With] Susan Sarandon at career peak....This is like no other baseball movie..." 01/27/1989 p.3D Total Film
"...Shelton cracks open the game's mythologies, but it's the sexy sparkle between Costner and Sarandon that's the hook..." 11/01/2003 p.129 Washington Post 10 of 10
Limber, funny and as in touch with the pleasures of the flesh as it is with the pleasures of the game, Bull Durham...eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight... This is a movie about true believers, and if beforehand you're not a member of their church, by the end you'll be raring to join up. - Hal Hinson
Sports Illustrated 8 of 10
...captures the reality, the language and the humor of the game as no baseball film ever has. It also has a witty and knowing screenplay... Costner is terrific.. It's a good movie and a damn good baseball movie. - Steve Wulf
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