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Name: Cobb
Released: 1994-12-2
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy, Scott Burkholder

Cobb

R
2h 8m
1994

65%

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The first man inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, one of the greatest hitters ever ... a sports hero, a misanthrope, a drunk and a racist ... Ty Cobb. Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones delivers a searing performance as the most controversial athlete of the 20th century. Robert Wuhl stars as biographer Al Stump who must wrestle with a dilemma as he gets to know the dying baseball player: Should Stump tell the story of the great athlete that his fans want to read, or should he show the mean, spiteful man who was born with an unequaled--and unearned--talent to hit a baseball. Based on the book Cobb: A Biography and the article Ty Cobb's Wild Ten Month Fight to Live by Al Stump.

Director:

Ron Shelton

Producer:

Russell Boyd, Arnon Milchan

Writer:

Ron Shelton

Cast:

Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy, Scott Burkholder, Allan Malamud, Bill Caplan, Tyler Cobb, Roger Clemens

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

65%

Critics Consensus: Tommy Lee Jones's searing performance helps to elevate Cobb above your typical sports biopic; he's so effective, in fact, that some may find the film unpleasant.

Reviews

Newsweek

David Ansen

Cobb is a refreshingly spiky antidote to all the Hollywood paeans to the glory of the game.

Most biopics mistakenly try to take us from cradle to grave and end up skimming the surface. The wisdom of Cobb is that writer-director Ron Shelton knows that the close study of a single day can decode a human life.

June 25, 2017

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People Magazine

Ralph Novak

A curiously gripping amalgam of Patton, Citizen Kane and Melvin and Howard.

June 25, 2017

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Candice Russell

To watch Tommy Lee Jones re-create the persona of the Hall of Famer in Cobb is to encounter the greatest SOB ever to come down the pike -- in or out of the domain of sports. The trek is hardly entertaining.

June 25, 2017

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Spokesman-Review (Washington)

Dan Webster

While the story of Cobb himself is a worthy one (Shelton's treatment, believe it or not, even has its similarities to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane), Shelton shortchanges the very game that made the man famous.

June 25, 2017

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