"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."

"John Goodman – Babe Ruth"

"Kelly McGillis – Claire Hodgson Ruth"

"Apart from being a bad film in the first place, aside from being superficially written, aside from being shot with little sense of time or place, the movie portrays Babe Ruth as a man almost completely lacking in the ability to have, or to provide, happiness. Spending these 115 minutes with the Babe is a little like being jammed into the window seat on a long-distance bus, next to a big guy with beer and cigars on his breath and nothing to talk about but his next meal and his last broad."

"There Was Only One."

"Trini Alvarado – Helen Woodford Ruth"

"Stephen Caffrey – Older Johnny"

"Irma P. Hall – Fanny Baily"

"Peter Donat – Harry Frazee, Red Sox owner"

"Bruce Boxleitner – Jumpin' Joe Dugan"

"James Cromwell – Brother Mathias"

"Larry Cedar – Forbes Field announcer"

"Joshua & Daniel Shalikar - Adam Szalinski"

"Gregory Sierra - Terence Wheeler"

"Ron Canada - Marshall Brooks"

"Michael Milhoan - Captain Ed Myerson"

"Lloyd Bridges - Clifford Sterling"

"Keri Russell - Mandy Park"

"Leslie Neale - Constance Winters"

"Amy O'Neill - Amy Szalinski"

"Rick Moranis - Wayne Szalinski"

"Marcia Strassman - Diane Szalinski"

"Robert Oliveri - Nick Szalinski"

"Mandy Park: [seeing how large Adam has gotten] There is no way I'm changing those diapers."

"Adam! Don't eat us!"

"John Shea - Dr. Charles Hendrickson"

"Mommy!... Mom!"

"Julia Sweeney - Nosey Neighbor"

"Oh no. Honey, I shrunk the kids."

"We're his parents, we'll handle this. Diane, how do we handle this?"

"Scott Martin Gershin - Flubber"