Cobb **** (1994, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich) – Classic Movie Review 10,204

Tommy Lee Jones scores as baseball’s greatest hitter, the game’s most feared and hated player, in writer-director Ron Shelton’s compelling 1995 sports biopic Cobb, based on the article and book by Al Stump.

All-time baseball great Ty Cobb (Jones), who has now grown old, summons sports writer Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) to his bedside to ghost-write his book. Cobb tries to sanitise the facts, but it soon becomes clear there are many sordid truths to be aired, so will Stump reveal the truth or protect the legend?

Jones’s acting bravura turns up the heat on this nifty sport movie that scores a home run.

Also in the cast are Lolita Davidovich, Lou Meyers, Ned Bellamy, Scott Burkholder, Allan Malamud, Bill Caplan, Jeff Fellenzer, Doug Krikorian, Gavin Smith, William Utay, J Kenneth Campbell, Rhoda Griffis and Tyler Logan Cobb.

Wuhl and Davidovich are also in Shelton’s Blaze (1989).

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