DVR Alert: Bull Durham
Back in the fall of 1987 movie director was in the area filming some movie about baseball. The movie starred Kevin Costner, whose chilling “No Way Out” was just hitting theaters, and that Rocky Horror chick, Susan Sarandon.
Regardless of the big billing, the director still had a hard time coercing the public to fill the stands at the Durham Athletic Park for movie scenes. Fans were shifted from one side to the other to make the stadium look more filled from scene to scene. Little did we all know that the little ol’ movie named “” would end up being the one of the greatest sports movies of all time, with ESPN.
While most of the outdoor scenes were shot in Durham, one of the best indoor scenes was at Raleigh’s . The bar is upstairs, and sets up the movie’s biggest geographic discontinuity, but only locals could be bothered by that!
Encore (TWC 310) is showing “Bull Durham” tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2:50pm. Set your DVRs and look for Mitch’s in the first third of the movie.
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Kevin
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