Cobb
You would think that in a sport where teams carry around baseball bats that its players wouldn't so blatantly insult each other.
However, the outfielder in this biography ran his mouth as much as his feet.
Hiring famed sportswriter Al Stump (Robert Wuhl), the cantankerous Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) hopes to whitewash his blemished baseball reputation with a glowing autobiography.
While staying with the 72-year-old alcoholic at his home in Lake Tahoe, Stump, himself, experiences the legendary irritability of the Hall of Famer.
Over the many months and miles he spends with Cobb, Stump must decide if he's going to pen a sanitized memoir or his own tell all.
Based on Stump's book, Tommy Lee Jones' performance is certainly a homerun, however, the story revels too much in Cobb's senility and deep-seated racism.
Furthermore, portraying baseball players as racists is insulting to those players who are just degenerate gamblers.
Yellow Light
vidiotreviews.blogspot.com
You would think that in a sport where teams carry around baseball bats that its players wouldn't so blatantly insult each other.
However, the outfielder in this biography ran his mouth as much as his feet.
Hiring famed sportswriter Al Stump (Robert Wuhl), the cantankerous Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) hopes to whitewash his blemished baseball reputation with a glowing autobiography.
While staying with the 72-year-old alcoholic at his home in Lake Tahoe, Stump, himself, experiences the legendary irritability of the Hall of Famer.
Over the many months and miles he spends with Cobb, Stump must decide if he's going to pen a sanitized memoir or his own tell all.
Based on Stump's book, Tommy Lee Jones' performance is certainly a homerun, however, the story revels too much in Cobb's senility and deep-seated racism.
Furthermore, portraying baseball players as racists is insulting to those players who are just degenerate gamblers.
Yellow Light
vidiotreviews.blogspot.com