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Bull Durham (1988)

★ 6.6 · 672 ratings on TMDB

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

Bull Durham poster★ 6.6

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.

DirectorRon Shelton
CastDanny Gans, David Neidorf, Jenny Robertson, Kevin Costner, Robert Wuhl, Susan Sarandon
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Bull Durham keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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