Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon were at their most seductive mode in the late 1980s, and together, they’re combustible.
(Sarandon was older in age than Costner, but who cares?)
Ron Shelton’s grown-up comedy romance is the kind of movie that seldom gets made anymore, its deep affection for America’s national pastime matched by its playful mapping of the path from flirtation to unbridled passion, and to something more lasting. Sarandon plays
Annie Savoy, a groupie who takes one new player per season from the minor-league Durham Bulls under her wing to impart the poetry of baseball.
She settles on Tim Robbins’ brash pitcher, nicknamed “Nuke,” but Costner’s vet catcher, Crash Davis, seems more seductive.
Crash has a touch when unsnapping a garter belt, and he can also paint a woman’s toenails.
