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THE NATURAL
July 11, 2012  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

 

Another impressively effective Robert Redford performance and showcase, this 1984 movie is one of the two best baseball-as-fable movies ever made. (The other? Field of Dreams.) There’s a deep and wonderful cast here, but pay special attention to Glenn Close (pictured) as a woman who catches the eye of Redford’s late-blooming baseball rookie. If you flip from tonight’s Damages to this, you may get whiplash while absorbing the difference, and the range.

 
 
 
 
 
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