Cobb
Cobb is a 1994 American biographical sports drama film starring Tommy Lee Jones as baseball player Ty Cobb. The film was written and directed by Ron Shelton and based on a 1994 book by Al Stump. The original music score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal. The film is told through the partnership between Cobb and sportswriter Al Stump who served as a ghostwriter of Cobb's autobiography. Some critics lauded the film and Jones's performance, but the box office results for the film were underwhelming, grossing little over $1 million on a budget of $25.5 million.
Plot
In 1960, sportswriter Al Stump is hired as the ghostwriter for an authorized autobiography of baseball player Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb. Now 74 and in failing health, Cobb wants an official biography to "set the record straight" before he dies. In addition, Stump will get to accompany Cobb at the annual Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, where Cobb is due to be inducted.
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author | Al Stump |
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director | Ron Shelton |
editor | Kimberly Ray Paul Seydor |
events | baseball |
genre | drama |
keywords | bad behavior baseball hall of fame baseball player beat break bury cigarette girl domestic worker drink drive estranged daughter georgia ghostwrite ghostwriter grudging respect hall of fame haunt help horrify hotel room keely smith kill lake tahoe load louis prima meet mickey cochrane misanthropic misanthropy morning old man open publish real story resort hotel road trip rogers hornsby run sensational sensationalism sexual arousal struggle survive to remember ty cobb tyrus raymond ty cobb wake up write |
musicBy | Elliot Goldenthal |
producer | David V. Lester |
productionCompany | Regency Enterprises |
publisher | Warner Bros. |
theme | biographical biographical drama sports |