Cobb
(DVD)

Based upon the book "Cobb: a biography" by Al Stump.

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1994.

Special features: Commentary by Ron Shelton [optional audio feature]; Commentary by Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Wuhl [optional audio feature]; Additional scenes (8 min.); The real Al Stump [featurette] (2 min.); On the field with Roger Clemens [featurette] (3 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.).

Director of photography, Russell Boyd ; edited by Paul Seydor, Kimberly Ray ; music composed by Elliot Goldenthal ; production designers, Armin Ganz, Scott T. Ritenour.

Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Lou Myers, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Mendillo, Eloy Casados, William Utay, J. Kenneth Campbell, Tommy Bush.

Set in 1960, "Cobb," is a series of duets between two men. Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb and Al Stump. "The Georgia Peach," while perhaps the greatest baseball player who ever lived, was also a racist, a wife-beater, and probably a killer. Stump was a sportswriter with the job of a lifetime--a biography with full access to the principal. Cobb envisions the book as his way of controlling how history sees him, a piece of self-serving, glorifying hogwash. Stump wants the real story, which Cobb (who's wrangled editorial approval) insists Stump cannot include. Stump writes the book Cobb wants, while secretly making notes for his own unvarnished biography. Stump published his version in 1994, and in keeping with its conclusions, the film dares to voice a truth most people regard as unwelcome: Sometimes greatness has nothing to do with goodness.

MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong language, violent behavior and nudity; Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby surround stereo; widescreen presentation, preserving the aspect ratio 2.35:1 of the original theatrical presentation.

In English, with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.