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Shelton locates the tension and the humor between pitches, between ball games, between the sheets. It helps too that he has written the wittiest, busiest screenplay since Moonstruck, and that his three stars do their very best screen work.
Costner is a natural as the dyed-in-the-wool ballplayer. His best lines are when he's philosophizing, like on being an All-American male who hates anything by Susan Sontag.
There's a lot of laughter and enjoyment on the way to the lockers.
Bull Durham is a film with spring fever, a giddy, playful look at life in baseball's minor leagues.
Bull Durham, the new baseball movie starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight.
Writer/director Ron Shelton lobs juicy lines to players Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, and they all hit home.
A winning, mature comedy about sex and baseball.
A romantic fable about baseball.
Classic performances, witty and insightful script, this is about so much more than baseball and will no doubt prove to be a quiet classic.
Deserves its status among sports films, but its ongoing appeal reflects that it's something more: an old-fashioned romantic comedy that succeeds in establishing and deepening memorable characters through memorably flavorful dialogue. [Blu-ray]
Shelton's sharp sense of how these characters interact and improve each other (both knowingly and unknowingly) gives the film its impact
An unadulterated joy of a sports movie that can't be recommended highly enough.
...one of most entertaining and flat-out indelible baseball films within modern cinema...
...the best sports movie ever.
The sports scenes have an offbeat authenticity and the romance is funny and sexy.
Might have been the greatest baseball movie ever made if not for the sluggish centerpiece performance by Kevin Costner.
Shelton, nominated for a best-original-screenplay Oscar, nails the details of minor-league ball visually as well, from the players' superstitious pregame rituals to the dead, painted-green grass on the field.
Tim Robbins acts circles around Kevin Costner.
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