The read
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 74% of the 1,345 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Metacritic61/100
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
694 audience votes
Key crew
- Barry LevinsonDirector
- Roger TowneScreenplay
- Phil DusenberryScreenplay
- Randy NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Robert RedfordRoy Hobbs
- Robert DuvallMax Mercy
- Glenn CloseIris Gaines
- Kim BasingerMemo Paris
- Wilford BrimleyPop Fisher
- Barbara HersheyHarriet Bird
- Robert ProskyThe Judge
- Richard FarnsworthRed Blow
- Joe Don BakerThe Whammer
- Michael MadsenBump Bailey
- John FinneganSam Simpson
- Alan FudgeEd Hobbs
Stills
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Themes
The Best Movies of 1984
The Natural is #36 of 60
