Babe Ruth (1991)

TV Movie   |    |  Biography, Drama, Sport

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A film based on the home-run legend's life.

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Awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy.

Another 1 nomination.

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User Reviews
24 June 2005 | dick-142
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| This is a baseball movie?
This movie portrays Ruth as a womanizing, hard drinking, gambling, overeating sports figure with a little baseball thrown in. Babe Ruths early life was quite interesting and this was for all intents and purposes was omitted in this film. Also, Lou Gehrig was barely covered and this was a well know relationship, good bad or indifferent, it should have been covered better than it was. His life was more than all bad. He was an American hero, an icon that a lot of baseball greats patterned their lives after. I feel that I am being fair to the memory of a great baseball player that this film completely ignored. Shame on the makers of this film for capitalizing on his faults and not his greatness.

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Trivia

According to a Sports Illustrated article, Rose impressed the film producers with his professionalism on the set. He knew his lines, delivered them without sounding like he was just reciting words and was able to easily adjust whenever the director suggested changes in pace on alternative takes. Rose attributed his ease in front of the camera to doing many commercials. "I do what the director tells me to do," he said.

Goofs

The movie depicts the Yankees winning the 1923 World Series on a game six, bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off home run by Babe Ruth. In fact, Ruth hit his home run in the top of the first inning of a 6-4 Yankees win.

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Plot Summary

Genres

Biography | Drama | Sport

Details

Release Date:

6 October 1991

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Los Angeles, California, USA

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