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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: December 2, 1994 |
Starring:
Allan Malamud, Bill Caplan, Doug Krikorian, Gavin Smith, Jeff Fellenzer, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy, Robert Wuhl, Scott Burkholder, Tommy Lee Jones
Summary:
A reporter hired to write the official biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.
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Shelton's approach in Cobb is stunningly successful and also very funny, in a jolting, in-your-face sort of way. Instead of taking the usual sports-biopic tack of glorifying his subject, he digs deep into the dirt of the athlete's life and somehow comes up with a weird sort of anti-glory glory.
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This very brave bio is an imposing disappointment, just like Cobb. [02 Dec 1994, p.2D]
Audiences will be confused by what the picture is not. It’s not really about Cobb or baseball or a bygone era. It’s neither character study nor historic drama. It’s ambitious but oblique and unfocused, and only the most generous of viewers will forgive its numerous lapses and vagaries. The film’s prospects of breaking out of a specialized niche are remote.
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Given its mad-dog subject, Cobb, starring Tommy Lee Jones as the raspy, snarling and seemingly demented Ty Cobb -- one of baseball's greatest players -- should have been a home run of a bitter, heartrending drama. Instead, this histrionic portrait of the most celebrated cur in sports history comes across like a fly ball that thuds on the ground.
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