"Less a biography than a baseball movie, "The Babe" is a muddy field of dreams fertilized with a whole lot of Bull Durham. Loosely based on George Herman Ruth's life, this shallow, soap-operatic treatment makes the man fit the myth. And bigger-than-life or not, he rattles around inside there like the prize in a Cracker Jack box."
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1990s American filmsDrama filmsBiographical filmsFilms set in ChicagoFilms directed by Arthur Hiller
Original Language: English
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Rita Kempley, "The Babe," Washington Post (17 April 1992).
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