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Titolo originale: The Natural
Regia: Barry Levinson |
Anno: 1984
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: corruption | sports | baseball | attempted murder | talent | redemption | child prodigy | femme fatale | lightning bolt | hdd |
Cast: Robert Redford | Robert Duvall | Glenn Close | Kim Basinger | Wilford Brimley | Barbara Hershey | Robert Prosky | Richard Farnsworth | Joe Don Baker | Darren McGavin | Michael Madsen | John Finnegan | Alan Fudge | Ken Grassano | Mike Starr | Mickey Treanor | Jon Van Ness | Anthony J. Ferrara | George Wilkosz | Paul Sullivan Jr | Rachel Hall | Sibby Sisti | Ralph Tabakin | Edward Walsh |

Roy Hobbs, è un ragazzo dallo straordinario talento naturale per il baseball. Dopo la morte del padre, che l´aveva spinto a dedicarsi al baseball, parte per Chicago ma, poco prima del primo provino della sua vita con i Chicago Cubs conosce Harriet che, dopo averlo invitato nella sua stanza di albergo, prima gli spara, ferendolo gravemente, e poi si suicida, distruggendogli in un solo attimo tutti i sogni di gloria. La storia riparte 16 anni dopo, quando un Roy Hobbs ormai trentacinquenne si trova a dover lottare per farsi largo in una squadra di secondo ordine, i N.Y. Knights. Qui si innamora della nipote dell’allenatore, Memo Paris. Dopo tanta panchina, grazie al suo talento fuori dal comune ed alla sua mazza (soprannominata “Wonderboy”, costruita dal legno di un tronco d’albero colpito da un fulmine), porterà i Knights alla finale di Lega ed alla vittoria nonostante il giornalista Mercy, che indaga sul suo passato, la corruzione sempre in agguato ed i malanni fisici.

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When Roy gets back to the dugout after hitting the home run that shatters the clock in Wrigley Field [...]	D
After Roy starts dating Memo, the Knights start losing, and there's a newspaper headline that reads [...]	D
(At around 1hr 28 mins) As the Knights streak toward the pennant, a newspaper clip is displayed show [...]	D
In the game where Hobbs breaks the Wrigley Field clock, his homer ends the game, as everyone in the [...]	D
When Hobbs calls time out to go to the mound and talk with the pitcher about not throwing the final [...]	D
When Iris is reading the paper about Roy's slump, none of the headlines actually match the story bei [...]	D
Batboy Bobby Savoy is depicted as traveling with the Knights on their road trips to other National L [...]	D
During the singing of the National Anthem, the woman singer adds a high note to "free" when she sing [...]	D
Hobbs wins the game with a home run in the bottom of the inning, but Hobbs's team, the New York Knig [...]	D
When Hobbs waits on the platform with the stationmaster looking on in the background, the train arri [...]	D
Though based on the 1939 season, the uniforms of the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Braves are not t [...]	D
During the game in which Roy Hobbs bats for the first time and knocks the cover off the ball, there [...]	D
The events of the film take place during the 1939 season. Yet Roy hits a home run that shatters the [...]	D
When Hobbs gets his first hit and what's left of the ball makes it to the outfield, it shows a field [...]	D
When Max Mercy is umpiring the match-up between Hobbs and the Whammer at the carnival, he takes seve [...]	D
If The Whammer is supposed to be Babe Ruth, he's batting from the wrong side. The Babe was left hand [...]	D
When Roy splinters "Wonderboy", the shot from behind home plate shows that the swing didn't break th [...]	D
Inasmuch as the bulk of the story takes place in 1939, the hotel technology must be questioned. Near [...]	D
Several news photographers shooting with 4x5 Graphic press cameras are using Pacemaker models (alumi [...]	D
Years later, when Hobbs makes just "one" pitch at the end of practice, the ball zooms across the pla [...]	D
In the scene depicting the team on a passenger train streaking across country as the Knights make th [...]	D
When Roy makes Wonderboy as a kid, the last letter is shaped with the tail going from top right to b [...]	D
In the at-bat when Roy Hobbs breaks the clock, before he sees the woman from his past, strike two is [...]	D
When Sam Simpson tells Max Mercy to wait until the following morning for background information on R [...]	D
After Hobbs' first game where he played with the team, he is walking through the tunnel with photogr [...]	D
When young Hobbs pitches at a circle that his father drew on the side of the barn, he breaks one of [...]	D
After Hobbs splits "Wonderboy", he tells the bat boy to pick him a winner. The bat boy gives him a b [...]	D
When Bump crashed through the fence, the batter had a white hat and a uniform trimmed in red. Prior [...]	D
In the climactic scene, when the lead runner and the third baseman arrive at third base they are not [...]	D
When Roy first reports to Pops Fisher, the letter i in Knights on Pops' uniform is not dotted.	D
In Roy Hobb's final at bat, the first pitch is called a ball by the umpire, but the play-by-play man [...]	D
The articles don't match the newspaper headlines about Hobbs and the Knights. Two examples are: (At [...]	D
One of the newspaper clippings shown is headlined "Knights on a Hot Streak", but the surrounding tex [...]	D
When there are two outs in the final inning of the final game, there are runners on first and third [...]	D
The first MLB night game was played between the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies in 193 [...]	D
The baseball cards of Roy Hobbs rolling off the printing press are similar to those manufactured by [...]	D
During his first at bat where he knocks the cover off the ball, as Roy is sliding into the base and [...]	D
During the National Anthem at Knights Field, just as the camera reaches the end of the Knights lineu [...]	D
In the beginning, when Hobbs is waiting for the train to take him to New York, he has only one bag. [...]	D
In the newspaper article shown in the coffee shop after Hobbs's first at bat, it states that he hit [...]	D
After Bump's funeral (and after the lightning patch has been added to the uniforms) there is a batti [...]	D
In the game against the Phillies when Bailey runs into the centerfielder causing the error, Roy is s [...]	D
When Bump returns to the dugout and claims he lost a fly ball in the sun, the catcher is wearing a d [...]	D
The bullet the Doctor hands Roy in the hospital is pristine. If it were shot through the barrel of a [...]	D
When Pop benches Bump Bailey and sends Roy up to bat for the first time (at around 38 mins), Bump is [...]	D
When Memo Paris reaches over to touch Roy Hobbs' bullet wound, the background of the close-up is dif [...]	D
On the occasions when Hobbs hits significant home runs, there are photographers within a few feet of [...]	D
After the bat boy hands Roy the Savoy Special, Roy reaches down, rubs his hand in the dirt, and wipe [...]	D
Bump Bailey's bronze plaque shown briefly after his funeral is misspelled "IN MEMORIUM"; the correct [...]	D
As Roy is rounding the bases after knocking the cover off the ball, it begins to rain hard enough th [...]	D
Before the final pitch and home run, an overhead shot is used apparently to set the scene. However, [...]	D
Early on, a young Roy Hobbs is seen playing baseball with his father. Since Roy is 35 years old in 1 [...]	D
After Hobbs gets poisoned at the party towards the end of the movie, he is seen in a hospital bed, w [...]	D
Towards the end of the movie Roy makes a call to Iris on a club house pay phone. The payphone is a 3 [...]	D
The blood on Roy's uniform during his last at-bat was great for dramatic effect, but his weakened st [...]	D
Soon after the Knights all add the Lightning Bolt Patch, there is a shot of a Knight crossing home p [...]	D
Newspaper copy on-screen doesn't match the accompanying headlines about Roy Hobbs and The New York K [...]	D
The Knights and Pirates play a one-game playoff to decide the National League pennant. In 1939, howe [...]	D
When Wonderboy is broken, the first view of it shows the broad end of the small piece pointing towar [...]	D
When Hobbs hits four home runs in Chicago, the announcer states on two occasions that it is the bott [...]	D
In the final game, Roy Hobbs strikes out in his first two plate appearances, then hits the game-winn [...]	D
At the beginning of one of the games the National Anthem is being sung. Singing at the beginning of [...]	D
When Roy Hobbs bats at the end of the game, he takes a first pitch strike. He then takes a ball. Wit [...]	D

Roy Hobbs: I'll take some coffee, then. [Hobbs fi [...]	D
Iris Gaines: I believe we have two lives: the one [...]	D
Al: You guys. You know, people are always running [...]	D
Pop Fisher: You know my mama wanted me to be a far [...]	D
Pop Fisher: My ma urged me to get out of this game [...]	D
Gus Sands: If it isn't enough, tell us what you ha [...]	D
Roy Hobbs: The only thing I know about the dark is [...]	D
Ed Hobbs: You've got a gift Roy... but it's not en [...]	D
Roy Hobbs: That day in Chicago; why did you stand [...]	D
Bartholomew 'Bump' Bailey: [after failing to catch [...]	D
Red Blow: Pretty good food, huh? Roy Hobbs: Damn [...]	D
Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop pa [...]	D
Pop Fisher: I'd have walked away from baseball and [...]	D
The Judge: I thought I could rely on your honor!	D
Pop Fisher: People don't start playing ball at you [...]	D
Pop Fisher: Hobbs. I'm sending you down Hobbs, Cla [...]	D
Roy Hobbs: Red, it took me sixteen years to get he [...]	D
Roy Hobbs: Pick me out a winner Bobby.	D
Iris Gaines: You know, I believe we have two lives [...]	D
Roy Hobbs: I coulda been better. I coulda broke ev [...]	D
Pop Fisher: C'mon Hobbs, knock the cover off the b [...]	D
The Judge: I thought I could rely on your honor, H [...]	D
Pop Fisher: I shoulda been a farmer.	D
Max Mercy: You read my mind. Roy Hobbs: That take [...]	D
Pop Fisher: Batting practice tomorrow, be there! [...]	D
Pop Fisher: I wanted to win that pennant worse tha [...]	D
Pop Fisher: [to his "best" pitcher who can't throw [...]	D
Roy Hobbs: My life didn't turn out the way I expec [...]	D

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