(Great baseball film that touches your heart).

Rating: 7/10 (18 September 2019)

One of the most popular baseball movies Bull Durham is an exciting film that will be appreciated by non-baseball fans as well. As sports movies go, this one is unconventional, dealing more with the minutia that provides the foundation of life in the minor leagues than with the actual games. Bull Durham is about showing what it's like for athletes who play for the love of the game and not the expectation of multi-million-dollar contracts. It's about the men who toil far from the spotlight and whose daily concern is not whether they will be promoted to The Show but whether their stats will allow them to bat another day. The qualities that distinguish Bull Durham from so many other baseball movies are its low-key humor (in contrast to the overt jokiness of Major League and The Naked Gun), the smartness of the dialogue. As I said in the opening sentence- Bull Durham isn't only for people who understand baseball- it's a universal experience.