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1988
R
Orion Pictures
1 h 48 m

1988
R
Orion Pictures
1 h 48 m

Summary A romantic love story set in the dirt and grit of minor league baseball. Sarandan is a groupie for the Carolina Durham Bulls who chooses a protege each season to school in the art of love. This season she picks the team's untameable pitcher but eventually abides her true passion, the team's catcher, Costner. (MGM)

Directed By: Ron Shelton

Written By: Ron Shelton

1988
R
Orion Pictures
1 h 48 m

1988
R
Orion Pictures
1 h 48 m

Bull Durham

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews

73

User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 72 User Ratings

8.3

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Summary A romantic love story set in the dirt and grit of minor league baseball. Sarandan is a groupie for the Carolina Durham Bulls who chooses a protege each season to school in the art of love. This season she picks the team's untameable pitcher but eventually abides her true passion, the team's catcher, Costner. (MGM)

Directed By: Ron Shelton

Written By: Ron Shelton

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews

81% Positive
13 Reviews

13% Mixed
2 Reviews

6% Negative
1 Review

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews

81% Positive
13 Reviews

13% Mixed
2 Reviews

6% Negative
1 Review

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Shelton has written the wittiest, busiest screenplay since Moonstruck, and his three stars do their very best screen work. [20 June 1988]

By Richard Corliss FULL REVIEW

The movie evokes Howard Hawks (in spirit if not to the letter) with its tight focus on a snug, obsessive world of insiders and camp followers where the exchanges between buddies and sexes have a euphoric stylishness and a giddy sense of ritual.

By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW

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User Score

Universal Acclaim Based on 72 User Ratings

83% Positive
60 Ratings

14% Mixed
10 Ratings

3% Negative
2 Ratings

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User Score

Universal Acclaim Based on 72 User Ratings

83% Positive
60 Ratings

14% Mixed
10 Ratings

3% Negative
2 Ratings

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

A loopy, loving nine innings full of comic curve balls, emotional home-runs and euphoric, summertime music.

By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW

Washington Post

You may catch yourself trying to remember where you parked a little before the end.

By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW

Chicago Tribune

Successfully avoids the grandiose mythmaking that has been the bane of the baseball movie from ''Pride of the Yankees'' to ''The Natural.'' Rather than a vapid national epic, it is a warm, droll, deftly cracked romantic comedy. [15 June 1988]

By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Dialogue that strains to be colorful, indiscriminately piled-on pop songs, plot developments that aren't followed through on, and minor aspects of motivation that are never known.

By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW

San Francisco Chronicle

In a word, bull - cruddy, foul-smelling and fly-specked, an excuse for a series of cheap sex scenes and single-entendre gags. [15 June 1988]

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Details

Production Company The Mount Company

Release Date Jun 15, 1988

Duration 1 h 48 m

Rating R

Genres

Tagline A Major League Love Story in a Minor League Town

Website http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=BULLDURH

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Awards

Golden Globes, USA

• 2 Nominations

Academy Awards, USA

• 1 Nomination

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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