Hobbs Electrifying Game Winning Home-Run | The Natural (Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall)

It's all up to Roy (Robert Redford) to win the big game. After a couple of misses and a bat-breaking foul, Hobbs takes a swing that literally knocks the lights out

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🎬The Natural (1984): On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey). After 16 years, Hobbs returns to pro baseball as a rookie for the last-place New York Knights. Despite early arguments with his manager, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), Hobbs becomes one of the best players in the league, and the Knights start winning. But this upsets the Judge (Robert Prosky), their owner, who wants Hobbs to lose games, not win.

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[willardswelding]

I can’t sit through a whole MLB game, but I have yet to see a baseball movie that I didn’t like and this one, along with Field of Dreams is the best.
The comment made below about the best part of this scene not being the home run, but Bobby giving Roy the Savoy Special is the absolute truth. The look Roy gives Bobby is the look every son wants from his father. I got it from mine once. My dad was an old fighter pilot and I was behind the stick when I was 15. The local instructor was his friend, an old Hellcat pilot who had fought the Japanese in the Pacific. My dad took me to the airport on a Saturday. I thought he would have me doing touch and goes in his old 182. We got there and his friend was waiting on us. My dad says “Take the kid up and tell me what you think. Should have known what was up when the old aviator put me in the Left Seat. Butter would not melt in this guys mouth. On the way home dad turns and gives me the look Bobby got from Roy and says, “Joe says you were born to fly.”
It took me 40 years to figure it out. My dad was a combat pilot. A rare guy with 10K+ hours behind the sick of everything from a J3 Cub to a Mustang. He knew what I could do, he was showing me off. The realization made me, an old man, weep.

[AnthonyMancuso-ptru]

That whole scene a tear jerker even after all these years in adulthood. Anyone who played this silly game as a kid understands.

[dslao]

The best part of this portion isn't the homerun. It's when Bobby gave him the Savoy Special. And that smile....

[tjmcmurtrie]

Wish they still made great movies like this today

[dukeax]

For all the decades that have come to pass, this moment still brings tears to my eyes

[carlrosendorf]

As he rounds third base into immortality.
Tears cascade down my face
My son and I love this movie.
Peace ✌️ 2024

[dukeax]

When he tells bobby to pick me a winner and he brings him the savoy special. Brings tears to my eyes every time

[billyhall]

From the moment that Roy sees his broken bat until he rounds third and we see the sparks reflected in the stunned managers glasses..movie magic at its best

[harissih]

One of the things I love about this scene (and the denouement which wasn’t shown) is how they were able to convey so much tension and drama with such super sparse dialogue. The last 10 minutes of the movie, there are like 15 words spoken total. It’s masterful!

[Mayhem-pgpi]

Anyone notice the look on Pop's face while Hobbs was rounding 3rd? The look of a man who waited his whole life to finally witness perfection. Redford referenced perfection another time in A river runs through it, in the sentiments of Norman McLean watching his younger brother land a once in a lifetime fish. Kudos to the cinematographers who compiled this scene.

[dgodfrey]

Everything about this movie is top notch. Casting, writing, directing, cinematography, editing, plot, everything. A masterpiece.

[redtesta]

They sure dont make movies like this anymore. Ex pro ball player here, this movie is one of my all time favorites. Robert Redford did such a good job and the casting was amazing. I loved the fact it was old school.

[countalucard]

The way he did a double take when the lefty came in he knew it was himself.

[Rinzlerny]

goose bump and teary eyes especially moment the bat boy bobby gave him the bat Savoy Special..

[dukeax]

Epic film score gives me the chills every time

[Motherofone]

I don't know how many times I've watched this movie. This scene still gives me goosebumps ❤😊❤

[jeromerizzo]

He tells Bobby to pick him a winner, and he gives Roy the bat he and Bobby made together. Smart kid.

[garrison]

Its hard to imagine but Brimley was only two years older than Redford here. This might be Redford's best performance.

[johnbuono]

I remember when they filmed it in my home town of Buffalo- Robert Redford here was the biggest thing that had ever happened to the city

[richardjohnson]

People, especially young people and kids, tend to emulate what they see in the movies. Even though it’s not as the book portrays, innocence over corruption is something that needs to be taught and emulated. Many of the old school movies taught values that are considered archaic by today’s standards…and it’ s been showing up in our young people for a couple of generations now. Corruption, profanity, loose moral standards, sexual perversion are all being taught as normal through the movies of today…and our children are acting these values out in real life. Either make a change, or we lose the future generations. I like this movie for the message it portrays… it does show that corruption is with us, and destroys many…but it also shows that we can make a choice.