Bull Durham is a
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romantic comedy about
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. It is based upon the
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experiences of
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/
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Ron SheltonRon Shelton is a U.S. film director and screenwriter, most notable for making movies about sports.Shelton is an alumnus of Santa Barbara High School and of the University of Arizona and Westmont College...
and depicts the players and fans of the
Durham BullsThe Durham Bulls are a minor league baseball team based in Durham, North Carolina. The team, which plays in the International League, is the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays major-league club. The Bulls play in Durham Bulls Athletic Park, often called the "DBAP" or "D-Bap", located in...
, a
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team in
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.
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stars as "Crash" Davis, a veteran catcher brought in to teach rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh (
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) about the game in preparation for reaching the Major Leagues. Baseball groupie Annie Savoy (
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) romances Nuke but finds herself increasingly attracted to Crash. Also featured are
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and
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.
Baseball movies were not considered a viable commercial prospect at the time of this film's production, and every studio passed except for
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, who gave Shelton a USD $9 million budget, an eight-week shooting schedule, and creative freedom. Even so, many cast members accepted salaries lower than their usual due to their enthusiasm for the material. He cast Kevin Costner because of the actor's natural athletic ability. During filming, Costner was able to hit two home runs while the cameras were rolling.
Bull Durham was a commercial success, grossing over $50 million in
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, well above its estimated budget, and was a critical success as well.
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ranked it the #1 Greatest Sports Movie of all time.
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ranked it #3 on its list of the 25 Greatest Sports Movies of All-Time. In addition, the film is ranked #55 on
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"100 Funniest Movies." It is also ranked #97 on the
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"
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" list, and #1 on
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' list of the 53 best reviewed sports movies of all time.
Summary
Costner stars as "Crash" Davis, a veteran of 12 years in the
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who is unwillingly sent down to the single-A (advanced) Bulls for a specific purpose: to educate hotshot rookie pitcher Ebby LaLoosh (Robbins, playing a character loosely based on
Steve DalkowskiSteven Louis "Dalko" Dalkowski is a retired left-handed pitcher in minor league baseball. He is sometimes called the fastest pitcher in baseball history and had a fastball that may have exceeded 100 MPH. Some experts believe it went as fast as 110 MPH, others that his pitches travelled at 105 MPH...
) about being a major-league talent, and to control Ebby's haphazard pitching. Crash immediately begins calling Ebby by the degrading nickname of "Meat", and they get off to a rocky start.
Thrown into the mix is Annie (Sarandon), a lifelong spiritual seeker who latched onto the "Church of Baseball" and has, every year, chosen one player on the Bulls to be her lover and student. Annie flirts with Crash and Ebby, but Crash walks out, saying he's too much a veteran to "try out" for anything. Before he leaves, Crash further sparks Annie's interest with a memorable speech in which he lists the things he "believes in".
Annie and Crash work in their own ways, and despite some animosity, to shape Ebby into a big-league pitcher. Annie plays mild bondage games, reads poetry to him, and gets him to think in different ways (and gives him the nickname "Nuke"). Crash forces Nuke to learn "not to think", by letting the catcher make the pitching calls (memorably at two points telling the batters what pitch is coming after Nuke rejects his calls), and lectures him about the pressure in facing
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hitters that can hit his "heat" (
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).
Crash also talks about the pleasure of life in "The Show" (major league baseball), which he briefly lived for "the 21 greatest days of my life" and o which he has tried for years to return . Meanwhile, as Nuke matures, the relationship between Annie and Crash grows, until it becomes obvious that the two of them are a more appropriate match, except for the fact that Annie and Nuke are currently a couple.
After a rough start, Nuke becomes a dominant pitcher by mid-season. By the end of the movie, Nuke is called up to the majors and the Bulls, now having no use for his mentor, release Crash. This incites jealous anger in Crash, who is frustrated by Nuke's failure to recognize all the talent he was blessed with. Nuke leaves for the big leagues, ending his relationship with Annie, and Crash overcomes his jealousy to leave Nuke with some final words of advice.
Crash, an experienced and skilled hitter, joins another team, the
Asheville TouristsThe Asheville Tourists are a minor league baseball team in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. They are a Class A team in the South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Colorado Rockies since 1994. They were previously affiliated with the Boston Red Sox , St...
, and breaks the minor league record for career home runs. He had been unenthusiastic about this personal milestone, telling Annie that the minor-league mark would be a "dubious achievement" and admonishing her not to notify the
Sporting News. Crash then retires as a player and returns to Durham, where Annie tells him she's ready to give up her annual affairs with "boys". Crash tells her that he will accept a baseball coaching job; foreshadowing suggests that he'll succeed in this role and that he and Annie will stay together. Both characters end one phase of their lives and begin another. We see Nuke one last time, being interviewed by the press as a major leaguer, reciting the clichéd answers that Crash had taught him earlier.
Cast and characters
- Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, musician, producer, and director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award. Costner's roles include Lt. John J...
as "Crash" Davis
- Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking...
as Annie Savoy
- Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...
as Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh
- Trey Wilson
Donald Yearnsley Wilson III was an American character actor known for playing rural, authoritarian type characters, most notably in comedies such as Raising Arizona and Bull Durham.-Early life:...
as Joe Riggins
- Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl is an American comedian, actor and writer.-Early life:Wuhl was born in Union, New Jersey to a father who worked as a produce distributor...
as Larry Hockett
- William O'Leary
William O'Leary is an American actor. He played Marty Taylor, Tim Taylor's little brother on Home Improvement...
as Jimmy
- David Neidorf as Bobby
Background
Ron Shelton played minor league baseball for five years, starting off at second base for the
Baltimore OriolesThe Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , the Orioles have played their home games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The "Orioles" name refers to the official state...
' farm system after graduating from
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in
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. He moved from the Appalachian League to California and then Texas before finally playing AAA ball for the
Rochester Red WingsThe Rochester Red Wings are a minor league baseball team based in Rochester, New York. The oldest and longest running minor league franchise in the history of professional sports, the team plays in the International League and is the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major-league club...
in the
International LeagueThe International League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the eastern United States. Like the Pacific Coast League and the Mexican League, it plays at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball...
. Shelton quit when he realized that he would never become a major league player. “I was 25. In baseball, you feel 60 if you're not in the big leagues. I didn't want to become a Crash Davis”, he said in an interview.
He went back to school and earned an M.F.A. in sculpture at the
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before moving to
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to join the city’s art scene. However, he felt more kinship in telling stories than in creating performance art. His break into filmmaking was second unit work on the films
Under FireUnder Fire is a political film set in 1979, during the last days of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua. The story is fictional, but was inspired by actual events...
and
The Best of Times (both of which he also wrote).
Production
According to Shelton, "I wrote a very early script about minor league baseball; the only thing it had in common with
Bull Durham was that it was about a pitcher and a catcher." That script was entitled,
The Player To Be Named Later; a single anecdote from that script made it into
Bull Durham. For
Bull Durham, Shelton "decided to see if a woman could tell the story" and "dictated that opening monologue on a little micro-recorder while I was driving around North Carolina."
Crash was named after Lawrence "Crash" Davis but was modeled after Pike Bishop, the lead character
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played in
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: a guy who "loved something more than it loved him." Annie Savoy's name was a combination of the nickname ("Annies") that baseball players gave their groupies and the name of a bar; she
was a "High Priestess [who] could lead us into a man’s world, and shine a light on it. And she would be very sensual, and sexual, yet she’d live by her own rigorous moral code. It seemed like a character we hadn’t seen before." After Shelton returned to Los Angeles from his road trip, he wrote the script for
Bull Durham in "about twelve weeks."
When Shelton pitched
Bull Durham, he had a hard time convincing a studio to give him the opportunity to direct. Baseball movies were not considered a viable commercial prospect at the time and every studio passed except for
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who gave him a $9 million budget (with many cast members accepting lower than usual salaries because of the material), an eight-week shooting schedule and creative freedom. Shelton scouted locations throughout the
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before settling on Durham in North Carolina because of
its old ballparkDurham Athletic Park, affectionately known as "The DAP" , is a former minor league baseball park in Durham, North Carolina. The ballpark site was home to various incarnations of the Durham Bulls from 1926 through 1994...
and its location, "among abandoned tobacco warehouses and on the edge of an abandoned downtown and in the middle of a residential neighborhood where people could walk".
Shelton cast Costner because of the actor's natural athleticism. He was a former high school baseball player and was able to hit two home runs while the cameras were rolling and, according Shelton, insisted "on throwing runners out even when they (the cameras) weren't rolling". He cast Robbins over the strong objections of the studio, who wanted
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instead Shelton had to threaten to quit before they backed off.
Producer
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(who is part owner of the real Durham Bulls) hired Pete Bock, a former semi-pro baseball player, as a consultant on the film. Bock recruited more than a dozen minor-league players, ran a tryout camp to recruit an additional 40 to 50 players from lesser ranks, hired several minor-league umpires and conducted two-a-day workouts and practice games with Tim Robbins pitching and Kevin Costner catching. Bock made sure the actors looked and acted like ballplayers and that the real players acted convincingly in front of the cameras. He said, “the director would say, 'This is the shot we want. What we need is the left fielder throwing a one-hopper to the plate. Then we need a good collision at the plate.' I would select the players I know could do the job, and then we would go out and get it done”.
The scene in the pool hall where Nuke tells Crash that he is going to "the Show" was originally shot in a black whorehouse with Costner's character playing "
Unchained Melody"Unchained Melody" is a popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
" on the piano to a 60-year-old hooker while drunk. Nuke came in and the two men fought in an alley with several black hookers cheering Crash on. Costner remembers, "The pool hall was somehow thought to be a better experience for the audience, because we didn't want to see him with a black woman, I guess. But it was perfectly in line with who he was".
Box office
Bull Durham debuted on June 15, 1988 and grossed $5 million in 1,238 theaters on its opening weekend. It went on to gross a total of $50.8 million in
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, well above its estimated $9 million budget.
Reviews
The film was well-received critically. It currently has a rating of 98% on
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.
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reported the film had an average score of 73 out of 100, based on 16 reviews. In
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’s review for
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magazine, he wrote that the film “works equally as a love story, a baseball fable and a comedy, while ignoring the clichés of each genre”.
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praised Shelton’s direction in his review for the
New York Times, “he demonstrates the sort of expert comic timing and control that allow him to get in and out of situations so quickly that they're over before one has time to question them. Part of the fun in watching
Bull Durham is in the awareness that a clearly seen vision is being realized. This is one first-rate debut".
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praised Susan Sarandon's performance in his review for the
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: "I don't know who else they could have hired to play Annie Savoy, the Sarandon character who pledges her heart and her body to one player a season, but I doubt if the character would have worked without Sarandon's wonderful performance". In his review for
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, Steve Wulf wrote, "It's a good movie and a damn good baseball movie". Hal Hinson, in his review for the
Washington Post, wrote, "The people associated with
Bull Durham know the game ... and the firsthand experience shows in their easy command of the ballplayer's vernacular, in their feel for what goes through a batter's head when he digs in at the plate and in their knowledge of the secret ceremonies that take place on the mound". Richard Corliss, in his review for
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, wrote, "Costner's surly sexiness finally pays off here; abrading against Sarandon's earth-mama geniality and Robbins' rube egocentricity, Costner strikes sparks".
Legacy
Bull Durham became a minor hit when released, and is now considered one of the best sports movies. In 2003,
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ranked
Bull Durham as the "Greatest Sports Movie". In addition, the film is ranked number 55 on
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"100 Funniest Movies." It is also ranked #97 on the
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"
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" list, and #1 on
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' Top Sports Movies list of the 53 best reviewed sports movies of all time.
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ranked
Bull Durham as the fifth best DVD of their Top 30 Sports Movies on DVD. The magazine also ranked the film as the fifth best sports film since 1983 in their "Sports 25: The Best Thrill-of-Victory, Agony-of-Defeat Films Since 1983" poll and #5 on their "50 Sexiest Movies Ever" poll. In June 2008, AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community.
Bull Durham was acknowledged as the fifth best film in the sports genre.
For years, Ron Shelton has contemplated making a sequel and remarked, "I couldn't figure out in the few years right after it came out, what do you do? Nuke's in the big leagues, Crash is managing in Visalia. Is Annie going to go to Visalia? I've been to Visalia. That will test a relationship ... It was not a simple fable to continue with - not that we don't talk about continuing it, now that everyone's in their 60s".
Awards and honors
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recognition
- 2000: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs
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#97
- 2008: AFI's 10 Top 10
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#5 Sports
DVD
Bull Durham was originally released on DVD in October 27, 1998 and included an audio commentary by writer/director Ron Shelton. A Special Edition DVD was released on April 2, 2002 and included the Shelton commentary track from the previous edition, a new commentary by Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins, a
Between The Lines: The Making Of Bull Durham featurette, a
Sports Wrap featurette, and a Costner profile. A "Collector's Edition" DVD celebrating the film's 20th anniversary was released on March 18, 2008 and features the two commentaries from the previous edition, a
Greatest Show On Dirt featurette, a
Diamonds In The Rough featurette that explores minor league baseball,
The Making Of Bull Durham featurette, and Costner profile from the previous edition.
Further reading
See also
- Durham Bulls
The Durham Bulls are a minor league baseball team based in Durham, North Carolina. The team, which plays in the International League, is the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays major-league club. The Bulls play in Durham Bulls Athletic Park, often called the "DBAP" or "D-Bap", located in...
- Lawrence "Crash" Davis
- Major League
Major League is a 1989 American satire comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, and Corbin Bernsen. Made for US$11 million, Major League grossed nearly US$50 million in domestic release...
- Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit
Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit is a 2009 memoir by Matt McCarthy in which McCarthy recounts his experiences as a professional baseball player in the Anaheim Angels minor-league system...
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