Rotten
It's not a bad movie. But its sentiments are faster than its reflexes. By the time it tries to uncoil a home-run swing, the ball has already vanished.
Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
Overview
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.
Director and cast
- Arthur Hiller Director
- John Goodman as Babe Ruth
- Kelly McGillis as Claire Ruth
- Trini Alvarado as Helen Ruth
- Randy Steinmeyer as Ty Cobb
- James Cromwell as Brother Mathias
- Michael McGrady as Lou Gehrig
- Richard Tyson as Guy Bush
- Joseph Ragno as Miller Huggins
- Ralph Marrero as Frank 'Ping' Bodie
- Bernard Kates as Colonel Jack Ruppert
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Goodman should have been perfect for the title role: like Ruth, he's a regular Joe of hugely irregular proportions in appetite and accomplishment. Too bad Hiller and Fusco cut him down to size.
Michael Sragow, New Yorker
Rotten
It doesn`t matter that these things really happened, because the thin staging and sentimental exaggeration make them seem extremely phony in any case.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
An honestly unheroic view of a hero, with a grand-slam performance by John Goodman.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Rotten
What could have been the Raging Bull of baseball movies becomes the nibble of a mouse on the legend of a giant.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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