Mantle - The Definitive Story of Mickey Mantle
by George Roy (II)
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Actor: Billy Crystal, Ed Harris, Marty Appel, Mickey Mantle, Richard Lewis (II)Director: George Roy (II)
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 58 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of Mantle - The Definitive Story of Mickey Mantle
Movie Review: A role model is not necessarily perfect.
Summary: 5 Stars
Mickey was far from perfect, but he was a role model for many baseball fans in the 50's and 60's, a day when stars were shown without their warts and blemishes. This is a greatly painted portrait of a real American hero, warts and all. He seemed to be a simple midwestern boy with great athletic ability, but in reality, he was a driven man, driven by his father and later his father's memory. His heroism really didn't start until he recognized his faults and did his best to overcome them. Unfortunately, he couldn't save himself, but he did show his fans what a hero he was.
Summary of Mantle - The Definitive Story of Mickey Mantle
The almost mythic career of Yankee slugger Mickey Mantle is the subject of this acclaimed HBO Sports documentary special. Over 18 seasons with the Bronx Bombers despite constant nagging injuries Mantle managed to hit 536 home runs twice hitting more than 50 in a season. He finished ten seasons with a batting average of .300 or more and suited up for seven World Series. To this day The Mick remains the greatest switch-hitter in baseball history; however behind his country charm and good looks there was his wayward lifestyle that harmed his marriage his relationship with his four sons and ultimately his health.Running Time: 58 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 026359323126 Manufacturer No: 93231"Babe Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer," read a sign in the bleachers taunting Barry Bonds as he renewed his allegedly tainted pursuit of the Babe's (and then Henry Aaron's) home run record in 2006. And the Mick? Well, as detailed in Mantle - The Definitive Story of Mickey Mantle, this New York Yankee immortal's rise to fame and glory was fueled by sheer talent; the drinking and carousing that were part of the package could hardly be called "performance enhancing." Indeed, as great as Mantle was--and at his peak in the 1950s and early '60s, only Willie Mays could rival him--he spent his retirement years haunted by the notion that he could have been better. That would have been something, considering that Mantle, the handsome, charming Oklahoma hayseed who was not yet 20 when he joined the Yankees in 1951, played on 12 World Series teams (seven of them winners), made the All-Star team 16 times, won three MVP trophies and one Triple Crown, hit over 500 homers, and made the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Still, he was plagued by serious injuries, not to mention a variety of self-inflicted problems, principally alcoholism; he was also a poor father to his four sons, who were raised mainly by their mother and came to love the bottle as much as their dad did. Retirement (in 1969) only made things worse, as his alcoholism eventually led to the need for a controversial liver transplant (some claimed that his celebrity status pushed Mantle higher up the organ recipient list than he deserved to be) and, finally, the cancer that killed him in 1995. But as this hour-long HBO documentary (narrated by Liev Schreiber and featuring interviews with Bob Costas, Billy Crystal, former teammates, and many others) tells it, Mantle's finest hours came near the end, when he admitted that he'd been a terrible role model who "was given so much… (but) I blew it." Somewhat sentimental but not mawkish, Mantle will transport you back to a simpler, more innocent time. And in an era when so many sports heroes are merely super-rich, arrogant criminals, that can't be bad. --Sam Graham
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