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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1994 DVD Release: 09/02/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 9 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 12 Genres: Drama, Biopic [feature], Sports Drama

What does a biographer do when the truth about his subject is far less pleasant than the legend? That is the moral dilemma at the heart of Cobb, which explores the lives of both baseball's premier hitter, Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones), and the sportswriter assigned to set his story down, Al Stump (Robert Wuhl). Stump arrives at the Tahoe home of the dying Cobb to write the official life story of the first man inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame. He finds a drunken, misanthropic, bitter racist who abuses his biographer as well as everyone else. Stump must either candycoat his subject's life or present an accurate picture of a disgusting man who happened to become an American sports hero. The movie's biting focus on Cobb, ferociously performed by Jones, is not matched by its weaker representation of Stump, an imbalance which ultimately weakens the film's overall effect. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

Tommy Lee Jones - Ty Cobb
Robert Wuhl - Al Stump
Lolita Davidovich - Ramona
Lou Myers - Willie
Stephen Mendillo - Mickey Cochrane

Ron Shelton has made a career directing and writing movies about sports. Cobb represented his second film to the baseball diamond. The film debuts on DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. English, Spanish, and French subtitles are accessible. The extensive supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by Shelton; a second commentary track recorded by co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Wuhl; a featurette on Al Stump, the man played by Wuhl in the film; deleted scenes; and a featurette with major-league pitching legend Roger Clemens. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide