The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 2000 American sports drama film directed by Robert Redford, and stars Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron. It is based on the 1995 book The Legend of Bagger Vance A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life by Steven Pressfield and takes place in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1931. This was Jack Lemmons final film role before his death the following year.
Promising golfer Rannulph Junuh Matt Damon is the favorite son of Savannah, Georgia and a noteworthy golfer Adele Invergordon Charlize Theron was his girlfriend from a wealthy family before he went off to war. While serving as a captain in the US Army during World War I, Junuh is traumatized when his entire company is wiped out in battle. Though he earns the Medal of Honor, he returns to Georgia and lives a shadowy life as a drunk, golf being just a distant memory.Years later circa 1930, Adele is trying to recover her familys lost fortune by holding a fourround, twoday exhibition match between Bobby Jones Joel Gretsch and Walter Hagen Bruce McGill, the best golfers of the era, with a grand prize of 10,000, at a golf resort her father built as the Depression struck. However, she needs a local participant to generate local interest, so she asks her estranged love Junuh to play. ........
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