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Cobb

R 1994 2h 8m Biography List
65% Tomatometer 48 Reviews 58% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings
Baseball legend Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) pressures biographer Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) to whitewash the sordid details of his life. Read More Read Less
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Tommy Lee Jones's searing performance helps to elevate Cobb above your typical sports biopic; he's so effective, in fact, that some may find the film unpleasant.

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David Ansen Newsweek Cobb is a refreshingly spiky antidote to all the Hollywood paeans to the glory of the game. Feb 21, 2018 Full Review Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune Most biopics mistakenly try to take us from cradle to grave and end up skimming the surface. The wisdom of Cobb is that writer-director Ron Shelton knows that the close study of a single day can decode a human life. Rated: 3.5/4 May 6, 2014 Full Review John Hartl Seattle Times Unfortunately, the movie just makes Stump look like a self-important jerk, possibly a bigger jerk than Cobb, and Wuhl's affable, weightless performance doesn't help. Rated: 2.5/4 May 6, 2014 Full Review Ralph Novak People Magazine A curiously gripping amalgam of Patton, Citizen Kane and Melvin and Howard. May 6, 2014 Full Review Candice Russell South Florida Sun-Sentinel To watch Tommy Lee Jones re-create the persona of the Hall of Famer in Cobb is to encounter the greatest SOB ever to come down the pike -- in or out of the domain of sports. The trek is hardly entertaining. May 6, 2014 Full Review Dan Webster Spokesman-Review (Washington) While the story of Cobb himself is a worthy one (Shelton's treatment, believe it or not, even has its similarities to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane), Shelton shortchanges the very game that made the man famous. May 6, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic but the film is character assassination and almost completely fictional. Why? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Best baseball movie of all time, regardless of what Dan Harris and Brendan Tuma say. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Cave W A good movie with a great central performance Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/21 Full Review Audience Member I didn't really expect nothing but a journalist whose purpose is to get bucks from being patient against an arrogant old man that constantly makes you feel awkward. Great performance by Tommy Lee J, but just as him, you may need a dose of xanax to calm down the awkward nerves. Cause there are times during the film in which you feel embarrassed, and that may be plot's intention although it wasn't necessary to enlarge it for 2 and a half hours. Director's aim may be completed, we now have an idea of who we shouldn't become once we succeed and what to avoid if there's once the desire of write and produce a biopic. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Another wonderfully unsentimental and melancholic baseball film that doesn't use baseball to promote the "American Dream," but rather uses one player to showcase in great detail the dark side of that dream. "Cobb" is Robert Wuhl's best performance. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought that this movie was alright, I am not really into sports movies etc...I do like bios and true stories though.I thought that Tommy Lee Jones did a great job as Ty Cobb shows the man's struggles and his highlights over his time in baseball Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Baseball legend Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) pressures biographer Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) to whitewash the sordid details of his life.
Director
Ron Shelton
Producer
David V. Lester
Production Co
Alcor Films, Warner Bros., Regency Enterprises
Rating
R
Genre
Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 21, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$648.1K
Runtime
2h 8m
Sound Mix
Stereo, Surround
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