One of my all-time favorites

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2002)

Perhaps the best sports film ever, this movie has a sparkling script, an all-star cast, and terrific performances. Robert Redford has the perfect approach to every scene. As the the gruff old-time manager and perennial loser, Wilford Brimley has never been better. The entire cast is spot on. This film never received the credit that it deserved, perhaps due to the fact that it bears little resemblance to Bernard Malamud's The Natural, on which it is loosely based. This Natural is more about good and evil, and it draws on the boyish wonder of heroes and summertime baseball. This film is what movie-making should be about.