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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

A middle-aged unknown comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent.

Cast

  • Robert Redford
  • Robert Duvall
  • Glenn Close
  • Kim Basinger
  • Wilford Brimley
  • Richard Farnsworth
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Robert Prosky
  • Darren McGavin
  • Joe Don Baker

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Metacritic

50

Why didn't they make a baseball picture? Why did The Natural have to be turned into idolatry on behalf of Robert Redford? Why did a perfectly good story, filled with interesting people, have to be made into one man's ascension to the godlike, especially when no effort is made to give that ascension meaning?

Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
60

An otherwise fine sports fantasy is dragged down by an overindulgence in sentimentality.

Metacritic review by William Thomas
William Thomas
Empire
50

Mr. Levinson, who both wrote and directed Diner, the small, exquisitely realized comedy about growing up aimless in Baltimore, here seems to be at the service of other people's decisions. Though entertaining in short stretches, The Natural has no recognizable character of its own.

Metacritic review by Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
The New York Times