Wonder and Magic in Baseball.

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2011)

Baseball is a sport in which it is everyone's favorite sport. But in The Natural, baseball will never be the same. The Natural is a wonderful and great movie that fills the screen with extreme joy and magic. The movie takes place in 1939 where a youngster named Roy Hobbs, played by Robert Redford, makes his way through the major league baseball team. But hold on a minute, that is just the story. The Natural begins with the young Roy as a boy playing ball with his father. But after a while, his father passes away and one night, a thunderstorm's lighting bolt split a tree in half. The young Roy then make the wood from the tree into a baseball. He also etches a name of his bat. "Wonderboy" is what he called the bat. Soon enough, the bat gives the magic touches to Roy. One day, while playing a baseball game, he hits the baseball and the ball goes flying flying into a glass clock, shattering it into pieces. Another time, he hits another baseball and that baseball and the inside of the ball came out. Knowing that he is the best, Roy faces problems in his life including a manager called The Judge, played by Robert Prosky. His job is to bring Hobbs down. Roy doesn't stand a chance to the Judge's actions, knowing that Roy is just the person he is. An baseball hero. The Natural have great performances by Redford, Glenn Close and Wilford Brimely. The Natural is one of the best films of 1984. ★★★★ 4 stars.