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| Director: Ron Shelton
Actors: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 11438
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 108
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM2525
ISBN: 0792852184
UPC: 027616874801
EAN: 9780792852186
ASIN: B00005V9HG
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1988
Release Date: April 2, 2002
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Condition: ******BRAND NEW****** ** Over 1.5 million orders shipped worldwide and more than 500 000 items in stock, BUY FROM A TRUSTED SOURCE, ESTABLISHED SINCE 1998 - INETVIDEO ~~~
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| Customer Reviews:
 Vulgar and Offensive April 8, 2007
3 out of 35 found this review helpful
Before I begin the review, I should take time to mention that I am a huge baseball fan. I rarely miss a game, follow it as if my life depends on it, and see more baseball games at the ballyard every year than I do movies. I also played when I was younger and have worked on baseball-related projects for my alma mater.
I had heard that Bull Durham was one of the best, if not the best, baseball movies ever made. As a fan of Field of Dreams and The Natural, I decided to go and rent this one. Figuring that it was about baseball I thought I couldn't go wrong, so I didn't check the ratings on any of the sites as I normally do for a movie. Big mistake on my part there.
I couldn't even make it through a half hour of this movie. There was a little bit of baseball but nothing else worth mentioning. The entire thing was about sex, and I had to look away from the TV for some time. I was hoping it would get better but it never did, and after all the sex and foul language I stopped the movie, never bothering to finish it.
I was surprised that so many people gave this vulgar excuse for a baseball film such high ratings. Looking at the summaries of the ending of the movie, it looks as if there is some baseball action later on but the female characters, who I did not like at all, seemed to persist. Unfortunately this movie is filled with sex, and I feel that it was far too inappropriate for any release.
I'm not some kid writing this, I am a mature conservative Christian. This movie should offend anyone who believes in Him. Don't believe the hype from some of the sportswriters about this one. Go and watch a real baseball game--always a much safer bet for good clean family entertainment, plus it's very unpredictable and you never know what the results will be.
 Best Treatment of Baseball's Boys of Summer April 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Bull Durham" was released in 1988. It was written and directed by Ron Shelton, who knew his way around a baseball field, and runs the bases in a swift,witty 108 minutes. It stars Kevin Costner, in what may be the first of his successful sports-themed movies, Susan Sarondon, and a young Tim Robbins, at the outset of his career. It happily combines romantic comedy and baseball: many people still consider this the best movie about the boys of summer.
It's set in Durham, North Carolina, then, as now, a minor league southern town, with advertisements for the simpler regional remedies of the time on the stadium's walls, many reminders of its tobacco-dependent local agricultural economy, and the plentifully blooming oleander, one of the glories of the south, all around the town. (But, you will recall, the decidedly major league Duke University is also in town.)
At any rate, as it opens, young "Nuke" LaLoosh (Robbins), a cocky, extravagantly talented but wild pitcher, has just reported for duty. He's shortly followed by Crash Davis (Costner), a seasoned catcher, the player to be named of the contract,sent to help tame LaLoosh. They form two sides of a romantic triangle with Annie Savoy (Sarandon), a part-time teacher of English at the local community college, and, more importantly, the team's unofficial trainer-handler. Every season she takes one player as her lover; he leaves her bed a better man, and a better player. Who's it to be?
Trey Wilson and Robert Wuhl turn in winning performances as the team management. The film's three stars also turn in disciplined, light on their feet performances. The film apparently catches them before their powerful primes. Sarandon and Robbins, who real-life hooked up pretty darn permanently on this set, later became more interested in arguing politics. Costner, who became a very big star indeed, later began delivering home-made chaotic behemoths to the multiplex. Here, all three deliver their lines with gusto.
Be warned, if you're looking for family viewing, the film's got some pretty salty, appropriate-to-ball players language. The film's also got an entertaining score, including several sly blues, and a vinyl Edith Piaf "No, Je Regrette Rien" on Savoy's old record player. Add flavorful interior decoration -- Savoy's house is a marvel of funky eclecticism. Also some pretty hot, sexy scenes; some witty, resonant dialogue that's passed into the national consciousness: "I believe in the church of baseball," Annie says. (It can't be coincidence that baseball players call their groupies "Annies.") And "Bull Durham" actually quotes famed American poet Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric;" it goes on to quote him further: "I see great things in baseball." If all baseball movies were as good as this, so would we all.
 just my opinion April 7, 2007
this is a great movie about all the life of a very talented actor and his girlfriend done in my home town of asheville,n.c. who i had a very good friendship with while i was an extra in the movie and had this young extra go & get the homerun ball that kevin hit during the movie and which i asked kevin to sign it for me which he did. it is 1 thing i will treasure from my movie expierence as a memorabilia item.
It's timeless February 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Where else but "Bull Durham" - there's romance, humor and don't forget our national pasttime - Baseball!
Bull Durham January 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As far as Amazon goes the service was top shelf.
This movie is in my opinion one of the all time classic greats about baseball. As opposed to some of Kevin Costner's more recent acting jobs this was very solid. A must see for any baseball family and one we will watch over and over.
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