Bull Durham (1988)

June 15, 1988 (US) • Comedy, Romance • 108m

Overview

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.

Director

Ron Shelton

Writer

Ron Shelton

Top Billed

Kevin Costner

Keywords

jealousy love triangle sports stadium age difference poem baseball trainer pitcher flirt home run minor leagues

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Top Billed Cast

Kevin Costner

Crash Davis

Susan Sarandon

Annie Savoy

Tim Robbins

Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh

Trey Wilson

Skip

Robert Wuhl

Larry

William O'Leary

Jimmy

David Neidorf

Bobby

Danny Gans

Deke

Tom Silardi

Tony

Jenny Robertson

Millie

Rick Marzan

Jose

George Buck

Nuke's Father

Lloyd T. Williams

Mickey

Max Patkin

Self

Gregory Avellone

Doc

Garland Bunting

Teddy (Radio Announcer)

Robert Dickman

Whitey

Timothy Kirk

Don Davis

Scared Batter

Stephen Ware

Umpire

Tobi Eshelman

Bat Boy

C.K. Bibby

Mayor

Henry G. Sanders

Sandy

Antoinette Forsyth

Ballpark Announcer

Shirley Anne Ritter

Cocktail Waitress

Pete Bock

Minister

Alan Mejia

Chu Chu

Sid Aikens

Core Baseball Player

Craig Brown

Core Baseball Player

Wes Currin

Core Baseball Player

Butch Davis

Core Baseball Player

Paul Devlin

Core Baseball Player

Jeff Greene

Core Baseball Player

Kelly Heath

Core Baseball Player

Mo Johnson

Core Baseball Player

Tim Kirk

Core Baseball Player

Todd Kopeznski

Core Baseball Player

John Lovingood

Core Baseball Player

Eddie Matthews

Core Baseball Player

Alan Paternoster

Core Baseball Player

Bill Robinson

Core Baseball Player

Dean Robinson

Core Baseball Player

Tom Schultz

Core Baseball Player

Sam Veraldi

Core Baseball Player

ElChico Williams

Core Baseball Player

Crew

Ron Shelton

Director

Mark Burg

Producer

Thom Mount

Producer

David V. Lester

Executive Producer

Michael Convertino

Original Music Composer

Bobby Byrne

Director of Photography

Robert Leighton

Editor

Adam Weiss

Editor

Bonnie Timmermann

Casting

Armin Ganz

Production Design

David Lubin

Art Direction

Kris Boxell

Set Decoration

Louise Frogley

Costume Design

David V. Lester

Unit Production Manager

Ron Shelton

Writer

Jim Hill

Construction Coordinator

Webster Whinery

Stunt Coordinator

Deborah Latham

Costume Supervisor

Karen Golden

Script Supervisor

Leslie Ann Anderson

Hairstylist

Cynthia Barr

Makeup Artist

Ellen Segal

Music Editor

Danny Bramson

Music Supervisor

Eric Engler

Camera Operator

Richard Craig Meinardus

Camera Operator

Joel David Warren

Still Photographer

Charles Minsky

Additional Photography

Robert Allan Guernsey

First Assistant Camera

John Ferguson

Gaffer

Paul Holzborn

Foley

Robert W. Glass Jr.

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Bob Minkler

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Robert Thirlwell

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Larry Kemp

Supervising Sound Editor

Lon Bender

Supervising Sound Editor

Larry Boudry

Sound Recordist

Steven B. Cohen

Sound Recordist

John A. Kelly

Scenic Artist

Charles Hirschhorn

Associate Producer

Ric Kidney

First Assistant Director

Nina K. Noble

Second Assistant Director

Dwain Wilson

Key Dresser

Stewart 'Polar Bear' Shaw

Set Dresser

Kim McClees

Set Dresser

Robert Beck

Set Dresser

Ron Servicky

Set Dresser

Perry Adleman

Second Assistant Camera

Alonzo Wilson

Costumer

Robin Hill

Costumer

Selma F. Hill

Seamstress

Doreen Van Tyne

Assistant Makeup Artist

Steven Nevius

Assistant Editor

Margaret Goodspeed

Assistant Editor

Celeste Beard

Assistant Editor

Janice F. Sperling

Production Coordinator

Donald J. Lee Jr.

Second Second Assistant Director

Kirk Francis

Sound Mixer

Mychal D. Smith

Boom Operator

Vern Hyde

Special Effects Technician

Jeff Hyde

Special Effects Technician

Karen Standard

Local Casting

Michael Boudry

Sound Recordist

Neal Burger

Sound Editor

Kevin Hearst

Sound Editor

Lou Kleinman

Sound Editor

Dan M. Rich

Sound Editor

Jeff Watts

Sound Editor

Lorna Anderson

Sound Editor

Wylie Stateman

Sound Editor

Devon Heffley Curry

ADR Supervisor

Stan Gilbert

ADR Editor

Frank Smathers

ADR Editor

William Dotson

Assistant Sound Editor

Scott Warner

Assistant Sound Editor

David W. Alstadter

ADR Recordist

Steve Cohen

ADR Recordist

David W. Alstadter

Foley Recordist

Steve Cohen

Foley Recordist

Alan Holly

ADR Mixer

Richard L. Morrison

Foley Mixer

Jeff Courtie

Foley Mixer

Paul Holzborn

Foley Artist

James Moriana

Foley Artist

Paul Brown

Scoring Mixer

Eugene Corr

Second Unit Director

Ken Goch

Second Unit First Assistant Director

Robert Hillman

Second Unit Director of Photography

Christian H. Burton

First Assistant Camera

David Terry

Sound Mixer

Dan Perri

Title Designer

Walt Whitman

Poem

David Siegel

Transportation Coordinator

Reviews

CinemaSerf

⭐ 6/10

August 8, 2026

I did rather like "Annie" (Susan Sarandon) taking a distinctly more actively benevolent view of supporting her local baseball team. Each season, she selects one of the lads from the team to be her friend-with-benefits for the season - all in the hope that this will help stop them languishing at the bottom of the league tables. She has some provenance with this process as usually the lucky player goes on to play unexpectedly well so success might loom for either new boy "Ebby" (Tim Robbins) who has great speed with his pitching but his aim leaves a lot to be desired or for "Crash" (Kevin Costner) who is much older, wiser, and purposed with getting "Ebby" to actually direct his skills more accurately. Now the hormonally active lad has no problems being her choice for extra-curricular entertainment but the older gent feels that wouldn't be appropriate and that sex ought not to be integrated in quite this way to motivate the players. As the season progresses, all three have to come to terms with maturity, success and failure as we roll along rather too predictably but still quite amiably to it's conclusion. The enthusiastic Sarandon steals the scenes here for me, and likewise Robbins delivers engagingly well as the lad juggling balls a-plenty as his priorities vacillate between his on and off-pitch activities, but for me Costner rather coasted through this drama putting in very little effort and relying on a sort of handsome laissez-faire approach that didn't quite work. In some ways his characterisation exemplified the mediocrity of so many who make a decent living from baseball, or football, or cricket, without really having any great skill at all save for spotting greater abilities in others. On that score, he does deliver but for me but I've always found him just a little too charm free. There is some wit from the dialogue and I did enjoy the absurd match commentaries from "Teddy" (Garland Bunting) who reminded me of the almost zealous way in which many fans - especially parents - follow the antics of their teams and players, but as it advances to the latter stages the humour becomes a little subsumed into something disappointingly sentimental. It's a watchable enough sporting drama with flashes that stand out, but I'm not soo sure I'd bother again.

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