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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: BULL DURHAM review
Description: In which Kid 1 joins me in reviewing BULL DURHAM (1988), from writer/director Ron Shelton. The film centers on the minor-league baseball team, the Durham Bulls, where veteran catcher Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is assigned to mentor Ebby Calvin LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a talented but wildly undisciplined pitching prospect. Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a local baseball groupie who chooses one player each season to initiate and educate, selects the young pitcher, leading to a complicated love triangle involving Crash. As the season progresses, a witty battle of wits and affections ensues between Annie and the cynical, intellectual Crash, while the thre...