Cobb

1994

Biography / Drama / Sport

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 48 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 8498 8.5K

sports baseball georgia biography historical figure baseball player

Plot summary

Al Stump is a famous sports-writer chosen by Ty Cobb to co-write his official, authorized 'autobiography' before his death. Cobb, widely feared and despised, feels misunderstood and wants to set the record straight about 'the greatest ball-player ever,' in his words.

Director

Ron Shelton Photo
Ron Shelton

Top cast

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Jerry Gatlin as Train Engineer
Jerry Hauck Photo
Jerry Hauck as Handicapper
Tommy Lee Jones Photo
Tommy Lee Jones as Ty Cobb
William Utay Photo
William Utay as Jameson
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1.15 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 8 min
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2.14 GB
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English 2.0
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2 hr 8 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10

features good acting and a good characterization of the past

I had heard nothing but bad things about this movie, which is why I waited about 30 years to see it. I came away greatly impressed. "Cobb" isn't a movie you 'like.' Tommy Lee Jones plays Ty Cobb as a guy who was mad, bad and dangerous to know. Robert Wuhl, the ostensible hero, a sportswriter who is working on Cobb's biography, can be seen as a two-faced weasel. Some of the scenes of Cobb being ill are difficult to watch.And yet, "Cobb" gives the sense of catching life and American culture on the screen to a far greater degree than most movies ever try. "Cobb" opens with a newsreel about Ty Cobb, so I suppose this movie is begging to be compared to "Citizen Kane," but I think "Cobb" can stand in "Kane's" company as a film that says something about the national character. "Cobb" doesn't look away from the fact that people in the past acted and thought differently than we do.1994 was a good year for films, so I guess everybody was too busy talking about "Pulp FIction" and "Forrest Gump" to pay attention to this film, which is a shame.
Reviewed by robertf-scott37 7 / 10

Wondeful job by Jones in a work of utter fiction

In bio-pics and other movies claiming to possess an historical basis, reviewers should stick to evaluating movies as movies and not as history, unless they happen to have a fair bit of grounding on the subject and/or events. Sad that so many here obviously hold an image of a a man on the basis of having read-or at least believing themselves familiar with the subject-a single work, and that, a book that has been utterly debunked a number of times (most recently in "War on the Basepaths" (Tim Horbaker-2015) and "Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty" (Charles Leerhsen-2015). Knowing what the screenplay was based upon, I went expecting a fictional portrayal of Cobb's last years and, my only reason for going, an accomplished and powerful performance by Tommy Lee Jones; both expectations were entirely met.
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