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Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius
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Based on 28 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Rowdy Herrington
Bill Pryor
Directed by: Rowdy Herrington
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 30, 2004
DVD: November 30, 2004
Running Time: 120 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for language
Starring James Caviezel, Claire Forlani, Jeremy Northam, Malcolm McDowell, Connie Ray, Brett Rice, Aidan Quinn, and Larry Thompson
For some athletes, the ultimate win comes through a stroke of luck, but for Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., "Bobby Jones," it was truly a stroke of genius. His natural skill and uncanny passion for the game of golf earned him the title of "The Best Golfer in the World." But it was his style that set him apart. A dashing smile. Impeccable integrity. Unrivaled intensity. Legendary wit and intelligence. An epic passion for life, born out of adversity. For a brief moment in time, this incredible man became an American hero. Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius tells the story of that man. (Bobby Jones Film Company)
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Tells this story in a straightforward, calm way that works ideally as the chronicle of a man's life but perhaps less ideally as drama.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) gives a quietly focused performance in the title role, ably assisted by Brett Rice as Jones's father, Jeremy Northam as golf rival Walter Hagen, and Malcolm McDowell as sportswriter O.D. Keeler.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
This exceedingly long-winded but classy drama could appeal to the same strain of infrequent, regional moviegoers looking for righteous entertainment that flocked to "The Passion of the Christ."
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
This is an old-fashioned sports hagiography of the sort that Gary Cooper used to star in while Teresa Wright sat smiling and worried on the sidelines, and, amazingly, it engages your attention and even respect while trotting out every clubhouse cliche in the book.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It requires an almost childlike faith to get into the spirit of Stroke of Genius, an old-fashioned willingness to believe that the world was once this way - and might, somehow, become this way again.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Mark Holcomb
Despite Herrington's skill at capturing the physicality of the game, Stroke is strictly for golf nuts and masochists--assuming there's a difference.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Patterson
Sadly for dramatic purposes, Jones' achievements seemed effortless, and the movie could really use the odd Ty Cobb wig-out.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
The film becomes markedly more entertaining with every appearance by Walter Hagen (Jeremy Northam), Jones' archrival, a raconteur and bon vivant who, though fiercely competitive, enjoyed playing while drunk and clad in a tuxedo.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
There's much to admire in this ambitious indie: top-notch production values, a gallery of evocative period detail (with location work on Scotland's famed St. Andrews' course) and solid performances from a cast .
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Staff (Not credited)
It's pleasing to see Jones triumph, digging his way out of sand traps with miraculous wedge shots, but ''Stroke of Genius'' is proof that when a movie is nothing but inspirational, it can sink and disappear into a field of dreams.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Bill Gallo
What a shame to squander the dramatic riches of Jones's life on third-rate caricature and paint-by-numbers storytelling.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
True-blue golf buffs should find it a treat. For others it's no deeper than a tin cup on a putting green.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It isn't that Bobby Jones is especially bad. It's just not especially good, either.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Ultimately, the more intensely you buy into the notion that golf is a complex metaphor for the human condition, the more susceptible you'll be to the film's insipid blandishments.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Marred by a flat, conservative script and an overreliance on the tried and true. It feels like a movie we've seen before.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's too bad. Jones deserved better than a biopic with a TV-movie heart.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Though lovingly crafted and beautifully photographed, the movie does little to make Jones seem compelling, or even all that good.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
It's passable, but in telling the tale of a man known to attempt the risky drive, it's a shame the filmmakers decided to shoot for par.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
It's too much feel-good movie to take in one sitting, but Stroke of Genius captures just enough detail from the greatest sportsman you've never heard of to keep the historical drama interesting.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
A high-minded, lethally dull biography of the legendary golfer Bobby Jones.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
I love golf, history and good stories, and I found this to be among the most boring, flat and cliched sports movies I've ever seen.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
A sluggish meander through the life of the man considered by many to be a deity of golfing.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
Bobby Jones plays out much like a round of golf - slow, old-fashioned, tediously long, and lacking in drama.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Even the staunchest of golfheads must know they're watching a cut-and-trite accounting.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
It seems nothing is left out, and the movie makes us begin to feel as though we've witnessed every swing the man ever swung.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Rick Kogan
It was Mark Twain who famously said, "Golf is a good walk spoiled." I'm telling you that Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is 120 minutes wasted.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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