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- 1973
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 1973
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
Summary The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.
Directed By: John D. Hancock
Written By: Mark Harris
- 1973
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
- 1973
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 36 m
Bang the Drum Slowly
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Summary The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.
Directed By: John D. Hancock
Written By: Mark Harris
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
80
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
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1 Review
0% Negative
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A simply marvelous cinematic experience.
A funny, gentle and honestly sentimental movie that is easily one of the best of the year in any category, and very possibly the best movie about sport ever made in this country.
A genuinely compelling film about athletics—and there haven't been many—based on a story by Mark Harris and directed by John Hancock. The material is trite, but Hancock's slow-motion treatment of the experience of athletic performance is adroit and graceful.
Though the baseball scenes themselves are secondary and none too convincing, De Niro nails the sentimental tearjerker stuff.
The film isn’t quiet a classic (though it is one of the better baseball movies to this day), but it’s notable as the first major indicator that De Niro was going to be a force to be reckoned with.
This baseball weeper was very clumsily directed by John Hancock; everything stops dead for the dialogue scenes.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
