Cobb (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cobb is a 1994 baseball movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as the legendary baseball player Ty Cobb. It is directed by Ron Shelton.
Based on a true story, Robert Wuhl plays sportswriter Al Stump who is hired to write an authorized "autobiography" of Cobb. After spending time with Cobb, Stump is torn between writing the book that Cobb wants and writing the truth.
Baseball scenes in the movie were filmed at Birmingham's Rickwood Field. Major League pitcher Roger Clemens has a brief cameo as an opposing pitcher, on whom Cobb steals second, third and home.
Singer/Songwriter Jimmy Buffett makes a cameo as a one armed heckler in the stands. Lawrence "Crash" Davis, the namesake for the main character in Shelton's earlier movie Bull Durham, also has a bit part in the film.
Tommy Lee Jones was shooting this film when he won the Academy Award for The Fugitive. Since his head was shaved for his role as Ty Cobb, Jones made light of the situation in his acceptance speech by saying "All a man can say at a time like this is 'I am not really bald.'"
The film was met with radically diverse reviews. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone hailed it as "one of the year's best" and Charles Taylor of Salon included it on his list of the best films of the decade. Others took a harsher view of the picture. Owen Glieberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a 'D', claiming the movie to be a "noisy, cantankerous buddy picture." He explained: "By refusing to place before our eyes Ty Cobb's haunted ferocity as a baseball player, it succeeds in making him look even worse than he was."
[edit] Soundtrack
The page for the score composed by Elliot Goldenthal can be found here.
[edit] External links
 |
This 1990s drama film-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
