Bull Durham
Romance is a lot like baseball. It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
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
- Worldwide
- $51M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The record
Awards
0 wins · 1 nomination
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Bull Durham returned 7.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $7M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $51M
- Release date
- Jun 15, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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