If you know a little bit about baseball, you’ll learn more by watching Bull Durham (1988, rated R, 108 minutes). 
Of course, that’s not the main reason to watch Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) scrambling the otherwise predictable lives of the minor league bigshot, Crash Davis (Kevin Costner), and the pitcher-on-the-loose, Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins).
Baseball is the soup this film is cooked in, and Annie redefines the recipe for recruiting. This is an utterly predictable love story, with Crash finally hanging the bell around Annie’s neck, and Annie using the slo-mo method to get her arms around his neck. You know it’s coming, and
you’ll love it.
Nuke provides comic relief—some of his minutes could have disappeared in the final cut. Annie seems a bit two-dimensional until Crash starts to warm up to her, and finally they sing their own version of that old sweet song.
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