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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790782232
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790782235
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 129 minutes
Sales Rank: 8715
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 02, 1994
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Product Description:
Tyrus Raymond Cobb played baseball like a man charging a machine-gun nest. He gave no quarter took no prisoners. And when his Hall of Fame career was over Ty Cobb attacked life the same way. Tommy Lee Jones portrays the legendary - and equally cheered and detested - Georgia Peach in this acclaimed film from writer/director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham Dark Blue) also starring Robert Wuhl and Lolita Davidovich. From its recapturing of the outfielder's playing days (Roger Clemens portrays a rival pitcher) to its recreation of a 1961 Hall of Fame banquet Cobb is a movie grand slam.Running Time: 128 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085392799329
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Rating:  - Like Being Spiked By A Runner Swiping Third Base
Ty Cobb was no angel in the outfield and writer/director Ron Shelton delivers a masterpiece on one of the most respected and reviled professional athletes ever.
Tommy Lee Jones portrays Cobb in this no-holds-barred account of his final years, as cancer was destroying the "Georgia Peach" from the inside and his vile, crazed actions shredded any grudging respect that a controversial, all-time great should receive in the ninth-inning of life.
Cobb biographer Al Stump is played ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing!
"Cobb" is simply the best baseball biopic ever. Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Wuhl are excellent as Cobb and his annointed biographer Al Stump. The recreated baseball scenes of the deadball era are right up there with "Eight Men Out" as far as realism goes. Jones is "scary" good in his portrayal of Cobb, arguably the greatest ballplayer ever (I'm pretty convinced he was). This movie is an underappreciated classic of the sports movie genre and a great profile of the genius/madness that was Ty Cobb. The extras ... Read More
Rating: - Cobb
This is a great movie. The language is strong so I do not recommend it for children. Ty Cobb was bestrayed well in this movie.
Rating: - One of Jones' best performances to date
The movie opens in a bar with half a dozen writers sitting around a table giving their 'best of' lists. They cannot agree on much--but all but one of them called out Ty Cobb's name as the best baseball player.
One of the men is called away from the table and he's jubilant. Ty Cobb has called him to do a book about his life.
Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) is quickly of two minds. There's nothing heroic about Cobb--although he understands greatness and has achieved it. Cobb goes from ... Read More
Rating: - Thought Provoking film about a great baseball player
Cobb is a haunting type of film, mostly because it chronicles the end of a man's life. This man was Ty Cobb, one of the most spectacular athletes in the sport of baseball. Hailed as one of the greatest of all time, Cobb's ability to steal bases was just as good as his inability to be a gentleman. Cobb's personality flaws were well known and brought out well in this film by the actor Tommy Lee Jones. The film swirls around a man interviewing Cobb for a spell in which there would be no tomorrow. Cobb is ... Read More
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