LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE
Year: 2000
USA: DreamWorks
UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch, Lane Smith, J Michael Moncrief, Peter Gerety, Thomas Jay Ryan, Michael O'Neill, Trip Hamilton, Dermot Crowley, Harve Presnell, Danny Nelson, Bob Penny, Michael McCarty, Carrie Preston, Turner Green, Blake King, Andrea Powell, John Bennes, Jonathan Green, Shane Brown, J Don Ferguson, E Roger Mitchell, Charles Riffenberg IV, Leon Lamar, Cory Carbaugh, Charles Seabrook, Bilaal Salaam, Charles Ward, Charles Green, Julie Jones, Valanie Lang, Bernard Hocke, Dan Beene, Elliott Street, Wilbur T Fitzgerald, Sonny Seiler, Joseph Reidy, Tannis Stoops, Dearing Paige Hockman, Erika Mounts, Neil Gonzaga, Ronald Steppe, Hugh Baggett, Jabulani Brown, Vijay Patel, Ricardo Bunge, Jack Lemmon (voice)
Director: Robert Redford
Country: USA
UK: 126 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some sexual content
UK Certificate: PG contains some mild language, infrequent mild sex references and brief war footage
USA Release Date: 3 November 2000
UK Release Date: 2 March 2001
UK Release Date: 23 February 2001 (Limited Release)
Synopsis
Set in Georgia in the 1930s, Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was the golden boy of Savannah, winning golf tournaments and excelling at everything he did. Then he went off to war and was shattered by the experience returning very depressed.
Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron) once the love of Junuh's life, has organized a golf tournament in an effort to save her late father's vision: the Krewe Island Golf Resort, which he built before the Great Depression destroyed his dream. She turns to Junuh, he has a chance to take part in the golf tournament against the greatest golfers of the day, Bobby Jones (Joel Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (Bruce McGill) but he isn't interested in either his former love or the golf tournament. Adele too, fighting to save Krewe Island doesn't realise that until the match that her greatest challenge is Junuh who she thought she had moved on from.
Enter Bagger Vance (Will Smith), who becomes Junuh's mysterious black caddie who shows him how to rekindle his inner strength and use it to fight for what he wants and believes in.
"Inside each and every one of us is our one true, authentic swing.
Something we was born with. Something that ours and ours alone.
Something that can't be learned ... something that got to be remembered".
Bagger Vance.