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October 1991 (USA) morePlot:
A film based on the home-run legend's life. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Suffers from same problems almost all baseball movies do moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stephen Lang | ... | George Herman 'Babe' Ruth | |
| Brian Doyle-Murray | ... | Marshall Hunt | |
| Donald Moffat | ... | Jacob Ruppert | |
| Yvonne Suhor | ... | Helen Woodford Ruth | |
| Bruce Weitz | ... | Miller Huggins | |
| Lisa Zane | ... | Claire Hodgson Ruth | |
| William Lucking | ... | Brother Matthias | |
| Neal McDonough | ... | Lou Gehrig | |
| John Anderson | ... | Judge Landis | |
| Pete Rose | ... | Ty Cobb | |
| Cy Buynak | ... | Eddie Bennet | |
| William Flatley | ... | Emil Fuchs | |
| Stephen Prutting | ... | Jimmy Walker | |
| Frankie Thorn | ... | Lady in Hotel | |
| Thomas Wagner | ... | Bill Killefer |
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Germany:99 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)Country:
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According to a Sports Illustrated article, Rose impressed the film producers with his professionalism on the set. He knew his lines, delivered them without sounding like he was just reciting words and was able to easily adjust whenever the director suggested changes in pace on alternative takes. Rose attributed his ease in front of the camera to doing many commercials. "I do what the director tells me to do," he said. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: The movie depicts the Yankees winning the 1923 World Series on a game six, bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off home run by Babe Ruth. In fact, Ruth hit his home run in the top of the first inning of a 6-4 Yankees win. moreFAQ
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Actors almost never look like players. They're too small, they don't have the rhythm, the speed, the power, the coordinations that athletes do in their prime. It's almost always embarrassing for the actor to pretend that he does.
Having said that, Lang does a credible job in his portrayal of Ruth. He seems to have some athletic skill and he seems to have studied very carefully Ruth's stance and swing and stride. At those moments, he's as believable as any actor who has played the part.
Where his portrayal suffers is in the scenes off the field. Lang is not as big or bear-like as Ruth. How many men are? He tries to capture Ruth's gregariousness and talented actor that he is, comes close, but not close enough for me.
For the most part the film-makers cast actors small of stature to make Lang's Ruth appear bigger and more imposing. But not in every scene, which a unforgivably dumb as periodically then Lang looks small, the spell is broken and we forget to suspend disbelief.
Another major flaw: Lang's prosthetic nose (Ruth had an odd, fleshy nose) is gray in color and obvious. Also obvious are the shoulder pads beneath his uniform.
We've seen the story before in books and in movies. Little if anything is new here. Just the same, any baseball fan, certainly any Ruth fan will find the film compelling enough to sit thru, but I'm still waiting for someone to tell this legendary figure's story right from beginning to end. It's a problem of casting. It would probably require locating another Babe Ruth. Can't count on someone like that coming along any time soon.