If you read Steven Pressfield’s 1996 novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, you know that the title character isn’t just a caddie but a godly personification of the […] × Skip to main content ...

"The Legend of Bagger Vance," with its misty, sun-dappled golf courses and its even mistier view of a man's search for his true self, goes beyond being a typical Robert Redford movie.

The Legend of Bagger Vance is this year's The Green Mile, only mercifully shorter. Or ...

Legend of Bagger Vance, The Robert Redford revisits "Natural" territory. ... The Movie. Rannulph Junuh (Damon) was a great golfer who went to war and lost his swing.

It’s the rare sports movie that’s actually just about sport, and The Legend of Bagger Vance is the usual thing: a male oriented, self serious bedtime story about a man for whom a game ...

`The Legend of Bagger Vance” is a sweet-tempered film about an epochal golf match in Savannah, Ga., in 1931: a nostalgia piece that’s been tenderly well-crafted by director Robert Redfo… ...

Panned by critics, a failure at the box office and a film one of its stars, Matt Damon, doesn’t like to discuss, “The Legend of Bagger Vance” didn’t live up to the talented cast and crew ...

"The Legend of Bagger Vance" is a lightweight, modestly engaging yarn sporting reductive mystical and philosophical elements that are both valid and borderline silly. Robert Redford's telling of a ...

Hardy Greaves (Jack Lemmon) is an old man, doing what he's been doing for years: playing golf. He's had five heart attacks in the past ten years, all on golf courses. This movie opens with Hardy ...

And on Nov. 3, 2024, "The Legend of Bagger Vance" turns 24. Released in theaters just after Halloween in 2000, the movie got 3 ½ stars from movie critic Roger Ebert, who wrote: ...

Most performers put forth valliant effort, but The Legend of Bagger Vance is often a very cold movie. Damon is solid but uncharismatic as Rannulph Junuh, the film¿s primary character.

The retrograde novelty of a post-Tiger Woods film featuring a heaven sent black caddy was chewed to death when The Legend of Bagger Vance was released in late 2000. But golf has always been about ...