Humorous, Dark and Sexy, Bull Durham Hits Home

Rating: 8/10 (14 December 2006)

I never thought that a movie about minor league baseball could be so entertaining. Bull Durham is funny, sexy and very blunt in its depiction of two popular national pastimes. The movie chronicles the season from the eyes of two players, "Nuke" Laloosh and Crash Davis. Nuke is a young hotshot pitcher and Crash is a veteran ball player hired to refine and tame Nuke. Susan Sarandon plays Annie, a sort of baseball groupie that spends each season with one minor league player. The unconditional love triangle set up in Bull Durham makes a for a very unique and often quite humorous sequence of events. Sarandon is perfect in her role as is Tim Robbins, playing the hot-headed Laloosh. My favorite performance is that of Kevin Costner. He creates a seasoned, rough and darkly humorous Crash Davis whose relationship with baseball is frustrating and unfair. A great storyline and even greater acting make Bull Durham almost impossible not to like. I am not much of a baseball fan and i love this movie. It takes a whole new approach to telling the story of an athlete's and it is in no way (in its depiction of characters and sport) like most other baseball movies. It is tragic and comical all at the same time. Bull Durham will make you appreciate baseball more, but it will not make you want to become a ball player.