Cobb

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Cobb

R

1994

2h 8m

Biography

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Baseball legend Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) pressures biographer Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) to whitewash the sordid details of his life.

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Critics Consensus

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

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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

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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

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Ralph Novak

People Magazine

A curiously gripping amalgam of Patton, Citizen Kane and Melvin and Howard.

May 6, 2014

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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

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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

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mark g

Tommy Lee Jones at his best, at times it becomes cringeworthy, a testament to his talent. Apparently it is mostly fictitious, but that doesn't really take anything away from the overall production.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/16/25

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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

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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

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Cave W

A good movie with a great central performance

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/21

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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

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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

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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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