The Legend of Bagger Vance The Legend of Bagger Vance

It Was Just A Moment Ago.

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.

Bruce McGill Joel Gretsch J. Michael Moncrief Wilbur Fitzgerald E. Roger Mitchell Carrie Preston Will Smith Charlize Theron Matt Damon

Wildwood Enterprises Allied Filmmakers

drama fantasy science fiction

126 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Derek Wood

    Review by Derek Wood ★★

    G'h. Are they still making "magical black person" movies?

  • dale42

    Review by dale42

    Great performances. The story didn't achieve the loftiness it aspired too.

  • Brent Paton

    Review by Brent Paton ★★★

    Well made film. Likable characters.

  • bookhouseboy

    Review by bookhouseboy ★½

    Nice cinematography and Charlize.T is inspirational, but overall this is underwhelming slowmoving shallowness.


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  • Brian

    Review by Brian ★★★

    5/11/01 - The Legend of Bagger Vance is about a golfer trying to find his "swing" again, on the course and in life. The movie itself was just OK, but it was stunning visually though. I think that the story would work a lot better in book form rather than on the screen. The Legend of Bagger Vance is on my list of books to read. I have read Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae and it was incredible!!!

  • Robert Cettl

    Review by Robert Cettl ★★★★

    Although Robert Redford remains best known as an actor, he maintains a devotion to the full breadth of film culture. Not only is he the guiding force behind the celebration of independent film that is the Sundance Film Festival, but he has also maintained a career as a director. Having won the Academy Award for Best Director on his debut directorial effort Ordinary People, Redford has indeed been enshrined as a major Hollywood artist. There will still be those who do not get past his blond good looks, but Redford is a man of considerable aspiration. Yet he has been able to achieve a disarming simplicity in his films, particularly in the gentle fable of The Milagro Beanfield War. It…

  • Luke Gorham

    Review by Luke Gorham ★★

    2 out of 5 (C)

  • nicksav

    Review by nicksav ★★★½

    Perfectly fine golf movie for a sunday afternoon.

  • E. Robert Frank

    Review by E. Robert Frank ★★★★

    This movie is not perfect, to be sure, but it has perfect moments, stapled together with the barest threads of plot. The love story is underdeveloped, as are most of the characters.

    Yet, when Bagger explains The Field to R. Junah, and the Rachel Portman music soars, and the camera lingers on the landscape, it approaches poetry. And I love this movie for that.

    It's also one of those movies that if you come looking for the racism, you'll find it. I think this says more about the viewer than the movie itself.