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Summary: Baseball's First "Charlie Hustle"
Review: If Ty Cobb were playing today, he would receive the finest counseling and support his team could provide. Because despite his greatness, Cobb was a very sick man."Cobb" is not about baseball, but a film about "greatness" and America's need for heroes. While anyone can be a drunken SOB, not everyone can hit .367 lifetime. Through an Oscar-caliber performance by Tommy Lee Jones, we see the tortured life of "The Georgia Peach" through the eyes of Al Stump, the sportswriter Ty Cobb hired to write his autobiography. The few scenes on the diamond include a cameo by Roger Clemens as he and Cobb trade insults while Cobb aloofly takes two strikes, then doubles, mowing down three infielders en route to the plate. Robert Wuhl plays the naive Stump who cannot believe he's being paid by the wealthy Cobb to elaborate on such topics as how to steal second base, when the despised Cobb's real story is much more fascinating. Did he sharpen his spikes before games? Did he beat a heckling cripple and kill another? Disruptive, bigoted and mean, Cobb alienated his family and teammates throughout his life, allegedly due to a tragedy he witnessed as a boy. As Stump drives Cobb from California to his native Georgia, he secretly compiles a second book about Cobb's ugly side and, has to wonder if he himself is emulating Cobb. When the dying Cobb finds Stump's scribbled notes, he realizes he's been betrayed. Still, the odd friendship between these two men continues with Cobb on his deathbed and Stump pondering which version of the biography to publish.
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Summary: Great bio movie!!!
Review: If you like biography or baseball, you'll LOVE this film. Tommy Lee Jones plays a fantastic Ty Cobb. I can watch this over and over!!! EXCELLENT!
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Summary: Response to the critics above
Review: OK, sure there is minimal baseball action in this film, but what you get is great acting and insight into a hall-of-famers mind and some very interesting issues that were pertinent in that era.
If you want baseball highlights you go rent a documentary... this is a film first and foremost and we have Tommy Lee Jones doing probably his best acting role to date, bringing to life a legendary character in American history who had some significantly eccentric personality flaws. The movie presents a very interesting life story and superb acting... highly recommended! Aaron Bradley
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Summary: The Georgia Peach
Review: The movie Cobb was both funny and profoundly sad. The car scene with Willie has some of the most hilarious dialogue I have ever heard. The fascination with Mr. Cobb is the combination of extraordinary intelligence with a thin skinned almost paranoid view of the world around him.The movie depicts his intellect showing the rapid fire stock market decisions Cobb routinely made. More impressive to me was the scene where he tells the writer Al Stump about his early investments in Coca Cola and General Motors investments he stll held almost 50 years later making him a very wealthy man. Sadness permeates the movie because Mr Cobb is dying and he knows it.Also because he endures several betrayals from Al Stump, his daughter, and his friend Mickey Cochrane all of whom were in one way or another in debt to Mr. Cobb. Ty Cobb was the quintessential rugged individual whose determination made him a great ballplayer and later a very sucessful investor in an era when many former athletes died penniless.
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Summary: Unforgettable Performance!
Review: This is absolutely one of the most entertaining movies I have ever seen. Tommy Lee Jones is just incredible, actually able to make us feel a degree of sympathy for the menacing, hate- spewing, racist Cobb. Some hilarious, very non Politically Correct dialogue! Very different movie than most of the trite trash that Hollywood churns out these days.
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Summary: The man-Ty Cobb
Review: This is an excellent movie for the baseball lover. Good context as well as very funny!
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Summary: Not your typical "HERO" movie
Review: To me, this movie is a dark comedy. Ty Cobb is obviously a racist, abusive mean spirited human being who also happens to be a baseball legend. This movie is about Cobb off the field during his last days as he plans an autobiography on his baseball career. Throughout the movie, he is verbally and physically abusive to those around him. Tommy Lee Jones manages to make his character, at times, sympathetic towards the end of the film as he gets sicker and sicker from one of his many illnesses. This does not change the fact that Ty Cobb was a vicious human being and writer/director Ron Shelton writes the character in a way that makes him funny in some ways. I can't imagine this movie being what it is without Tommy Lee Jones. Jones tends to play arogant know-it-all characters in movies and this one tops them all. This movie was not a hit because of limited release(40 theaters instead of the planned 400 according to Shelton's commentary) but it is easily one of the best movies made about baseball and the people who play the game. Without a doubt Tommy Lee Jones' best performance. Worth taking the time to watch despite the wretched character he portrays in the movie.
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Summary: Not your typical "HERO" movie
Review: To me, this movie is a dark comedy. Ty Cobb is obviously a racist, abusive mean spirited human being who also happens to be a baseball legend. This movie is about Cobb off the field during his last days as he plans an autobiography on his baseball career. Throughout the movie, he is verbally and physically abusive to those around him. Tommy Lee Jones manages to make his character, at times, sympathetic towards the end of the film as he gets sicker and sicker from one of his many illnesses. This does not change the fact that Ty Cobb was a vicious human being and writer/director Ron Shelton writes the character in a way that makes him funny in some ways. I can't imagine this movie being what it is without Tommy Lee Jones. Jones tends to play arogant know-it-all characters in movies and this one tops them all. This movie was not a hit because of limited release(40 theaters instead of the planned 400 according to Shelton's commentary) but it is easily one of the best movies made about baseball and the people who play the game. Without a doubt Tommy Lee Jones' best performance. Worth taking the time to watch despite the wretched character he portrays in the movie.
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Summary: It's a master piece!!
Review: Tommy Lee Jones beautifully portrays the late life of the greatest baseball player ever-Ty Cobb. This movie grasps your attention, and shows you the real story behind Ty Cobb. It follows the biography/autobiography written by Al Stump which was the basically the only correctly written version which states the truth about Cobb. Definitely a must see for all baseball fans, and especially fans who admire the greatest player ever-Tyrus Raymond Cobb (The Georgia Peach)
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Summary: Very, Very Good
Review: Tommy Lee Jones is incredible as Ty Cobb. The movie is basically the first few pages of Al Stump's biography of Cobb he wrote sometime in the early 90's. Cobb is old and dying and we see his life through flashbacks and such. Jones becomes Cobb and gives truly superb performances throughout the film. This movie should spark an interest in Ty Cobb which you should act on, he was a very interesting individual who lived a very hard life. He was a tragic figure in baseball. A must see!
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