Bull Durham

1988 • 1h 48m •

Comedy Romance

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★ 6.6/10

706 reviews

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Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.

"Romance is a lot like baseball. It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game."

Top Billed Cast

Kevin Costner

Crash Davis

Susan Sarandon

Annie Savoy

Tim Robbins

Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh

Trey Wilson

Skip

Robert Wuhl

Larry

William O'Leary

Jimmy

David Neidorf

Bobby

Danny Gans

Deke

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2026-08-08

I did rather like "Annie" (Susan Sarandon) taking a distinctly more actively benevolent view of supporting her local baseball team. Each season, she selects one of the lads from the team to be her friend-with-benefits for the season - all in the hope that this will help stop them languishing at the bottom of the league tables. She has some provenance with this process as usually the lucky player goes on to play unexpectedly well so success might loom for either new boy "Ebby" (Tim Robbins) who has great speed with his pitching but his aim leaves a lot to be desired or for "Crash" (Kevin Costne...