Best Baseball Romance Ever!

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2006)

Bull Durham is one of those movies. From the moment it hit the big screen, baseball fans who are romantic at all fell in love with it! The concept of the minor league ballplayer (Kevin Costner) falling for the baseball addicted groupie (Susan Sarandon) is just too good to be true.
Most men who are true baseball fans I suspect fantasize that they might some day find a woman as interesting as Annie Savoy! The fact that her interest in the National Passtime is mere icing on the cake.
Bull Durham has been called, with good reason, the best sports movie of all time. I know, I just bought a new copy of the DVD with that sticker on the cover! Who ever made the claim hit the nail right on the head.
Costner is a hoot as the antagonistic Durham to Tim Robbin's "Nuke LaLoosh... the airheaded pitcher with a million dollar arm. Crash Davis (Costner) has had a fleeting taste of "the show", as the Major Leagues are referred to; and he knows that his protégé has the talent, but might lack the intellect to make it. Davis knows his best days are behind him and he is simply trying to set the record for home runs by a minor leaguer (a bogus record it turns out as the writer did not research that particular point of trivia too well)... and does what he must to do that.
Savoy understands that she has stumbled into a season like no other; having a relationship with "Nuke" while wanting "Crash"... and watching her beloved Durham Bulls change from a bumbling squad of kids to a team of professional ball players.
Just my two cents. If you've never seen Bull Durham, do yourself the favor; although I do caution to keep the kiddees out of the room unless you like them seeing some really mature, sexual situations!