the slugger's wife

Director: hal ashby

Actor: michael o'keefe,rebecca de mornay,martin ritt,randy quaid

Data Published: Fri Mar 29 1985

Genres: Comedy,Music,Romance,Sport

Key Words: baseball movie,baseball psychopath,superstition,baseball

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090036/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slugger%27s_Wife

Description: The Slugger's Wife is a movie starring Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, and Martin Ritt. A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they...

Plot: Darryl Palmer is a baseball player for the Atlanta Braves. He enjoys the fame and fringe benefits of bachelor life until he meets rock singer Debby Huston, falls in love and decides to settle down. Debby isn't ready to put her professional hopes on hold. But from the moment Darryl meets her, his own career takes off. He begins a full assault on baseball's single-season home run record of 61 (at that time) and considers Debby a good-luck charm, wanting her to be there at his games. Manager Burly DeVito appreciates that Darryl has found a settling influence in his life, but teammates Moose Granger and Manny Alvarado become increasingly aware of how obsessed Darryl is with Debby and how unhappy she has become. She feels smothered by her husband, who interferes with her career ambitions and goes into a jealous funk whenever she goes on the road. The happy couple breaks up, to the detriment of Darryl's game and his pursuit of one of baseball's greatest feats. He begins to fail on a regular basis and the team's playoff chances could be in jeopardy. Burly and his players concoct a plan to have another woman, hidden by shadows, pretend to be Darryl's wife, telling him everything he wants to hear. It works temporarily, then backfires. Debby comes back to try to work things out. Darryl does indeed hit his record-breaking home run, but it remains uncertain whether the couple's relationship can ever be what it once was.