Jeff bridges and tommy lee jones chew scenery in 1994s. Tommy lee jones as ty cobb original 1990s movie promo. Tommy lee jones was born in san saba, texas, the son of lucille marie scott, a police officer and. Baseball legend ty cobb tommy lee jones pressures biographer al stump robert wuhl to whitewash the sordid details of his life. Being locked up with this movie for 123 minutes is like taking a threeday bus trip. Also they were both considered to play snake plissken in escape from new york 1981, before kurt russell got the part. Tommy lee jones stars as legendary baseball great ty cobb in cobb, a warner bros. The movie was distributed and financed by mgm, a studio which was in financial difficulty at the time. Tommy lee jones portrays the legendary and equally cheered and. With tommy lee jones, robert wuhl, lolita davidovich, ned bellamy. The smell of ballpark franks, and were not just talking of the thomas variety. Released march 15th, 1994, heaven and earth stars tommy lee jones, hiep thi le, joan chen, haing s.
Its set in the late 1950s, at a time when nuclear tests were stirring up doubts and fears, and it stars tommy lee jones as major hank marshall, an army career officer who is also a leading nuclear scientist. Rent cobb 1994 starring tommy lee jones and robert wuhl on dvd and bluray. Erg jammer dat er zoveel films over american football en baseball worden gemaakt trouwens. The head of the studio was former paramount executive frank mancuso sr. A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer. Director ron shelton and actors tommy lee jones and robert wuhl discuss their film, cobb, which portrays the relationship between baseball legend ty cobb and al stump, his biographer. The film was released in the united states on july 20, 1994. Its no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Blown away 1994 trivia 26 add new the shockwave from the exploding ocean liner shattered dozens of windows in east boston. With jeff bridges, tommy lee jones, suzy amis, lloyd bridges. Tommy lee jones portrays the legendaryand equally cheered. Baseball is a red blooded sport for red blooded men.
A reporter hired to write the official biography of ty cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legends real story is. The hollywood reporter calls this a sharpbreaking and crackling film with a terrific performance by tommy lee jones. Cobb 1994 stream and watch online baseball legend ty cobb tommy lee jones pressures biographer al stump robert wuhl to whitewash the sordid details of his life. He has received four academy award nominations, winning the best supporting actor oscar for his performance as u. This is the real thinga rare, original promotional photostill. Tommy lee jones s searing performance helps to elevate cobb above your typical sports biopic. The original music score was composed by elliot goldenthal. Blue sky is a 1994 american drama film directed by tony richardson and starring jessica lange, tommy lee jones, powers boothe, carrie snodgress, amy locane, galynn duggan, and chris odonnell.
The film is told through the partnership between cobb and sportswriter al stump who served as a ghostwriter of cobbs autobiography. Biografie sport film geregisseerd door ron shelton. Tommy lee jones born september 15, 1946 is an american actor and filmmaker. It wants to make a statement about heroes and reality, but it never really gets there. Tommy lee jones starred as ty cobb in the 1994 movie, cobb. Eddard stark, ned stark, film scene, lord of rings, sean bean, j. With jessica lange, tommy lee jones, powers boothe, carrie snodgress. Ty cobb was the most feared, most hated, most respected baseball player of his time, and he. Blue sky is such an ungainly mixture of politics, emotion and nostalgia that its a wonder the movie works at all but it does. While this movie does a great job of showing what type of man cobb was and tommy lee jones delivers a great performance as the baseball legend, overall the movie never lives up to either the character or the actor. Yep, its baseball season, and in tribute to our national pastime, we at rt have assembled a great. The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuelefficient car.
An irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the boston bomb squad. Cobb is a 1994 biopic starring tommy lee jones as the famed baseball player ty cobb. Met tommy lee jones, robert wuhl en lolita davidovich. Ngor the r movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 20 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Tyrus raymond cobb played baseball like a man charging a machinegun nest. Cobb 1994 is an american biopic about the baseball player ty cobb 1886 1961, who had played for the detroit tigers and, later, the philadelphia athletics. Ranch foreman pete perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in mexico. They could not have picked a better actor to portray ty cobb than tommy lee jones. Tommy lee joness searing performance helps to elevate cobb above your. Promo photos are limited editions as only a small number were printed to promote the artist or production.
Very good baseball movie about one of the greatest legends of the game, ty cobb, was so full of terrible language and sexual references that i. Ty cobb was the greatest baseball player of all time. The original music score was composed by jack nitzsche. Jeff bridges and tommy lee jones are good friends in real life. Academy awardwinner tommy lee jones the fugitive, the client stars as baseball legend ty. The film was hardly seen in theaters when it was released. The client is a 1994 american legal thriller film directed by joel schumacher, and starring susan sarandon, tommy lee jones, brad renfro, marylouise parker, anthony lapaglia, anthony edwards, and ossie davis. Marshal samuel gerard in the 1993 thriller film the fugitive his other notable starring roles include texas ranger woodrow f. This tauntingmadbomber thriller, pitting an irish exterrorist gone straight and rechristened jimmy dove jeff bridges against his former compatriot ryan gaerity tommy lee jones on the. Blown away is a 1994 action thriller film starring jeff bridges, tommy lee jones, forest whitaker, and lloyd bridges. An eighthgeneration texan, actor tommy lee jones, born september 15th, 1946, attended harvard university, where he roomed with future u. This is not a story about baseball, it is a story of ty cobb. Heaven and earth 1994 stream and watch online moviefone.
Tommy lee jones, robert wuhl and lolita davidovich. With sally field, tommy lee jones, david keith, miriam colon. Baseball legend ty cobb tommy lee jones pressures biographer al stump robert wuhl to. Its a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. It was adapted by rama stagner, arlene sarner and jerry leichtling. A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the district attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family. The picture was written and directed by ron shelton and based on a. A baseball docudrama about the life of ty cobb, written and directed by ron shelton who.
The picture was written and directed by ron shelton and based on a book by al stump. Browse tommy lee jones movies and tv shows available on prime video and begin streaming right away to your favorite device. This movie takes place in 1960 and coke first came out in cans in 1955. For a baseball movie, there is precious little playing action. Call in the tv miniseries lonesome dove, agent k in the men in black film.
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