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The Slugger's Wife, 1985
English
USA
Profile of The Slugger's Wife
The mood of The Slugger's Wife is touching, humorous, and sentimental. The plot centers around relationships vs. career, the life of an athlete, and following your dreams. It is a drama, romance, and comedy movie. In approach, The Slugger's Wife is realistic. It happens in the 1980s.
Summary of The Slugger's Wife
When a famous comic playwright like Neil Simon writes a movie called The Slugger's Wife, one might suspect that he's jealously thinking about that other famous, although not so comic, playwright, Arthur Miller, whose wife, Marilyn Monroe, had previously been a real slugger's wife. Is this a thinly veiled rehash of the story of Jolitin' Joe and Marilyn Monroe? Absolutely. A slugger, Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe), falls for a singer, Debby (Rebecca DeMornay), but every time he tries to get a date with her he fails, and each failure is mimicked by his performance on the baseball field. But when they finally do come together, his average goes up and they get married. But she's bored and frustrated staying at home and hanging around with ballplayers; she wants to continue her own career. So, in spite of a surfeit of athletic sex peppered with Neil Simon's jokes about pitching and catching and hitting a home run, they break up. She sings, he slumps. The Yankee Clipper and the Blonde Bombshell never got back together, but that's American life, in which, as Scott Fitzgerald said, "There are no second acts." But this is a movie, so they give it another try.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 March 1985 |
| Runtime: | 105 min |
Cast and Crew
as Darryl Palmer
