The Legend Of Bagger Vance [2001]
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Based on the bestselling novel by Steven Pressfield, The Legend of Bagger Vance is a beguiling addition to the tiny genre of feel-good mystical sports movies. In Georgia at the height of the Depression, Adele Invergordon organises a golf tournament to publicise her inherited luxury hotel/golf course. Taking part are two genuine golf stars of the period, together with one-time Southern sporting hero, Rannulph Junuh . Shattered by the Great War, Junuh has retreated into a bottle and it is up to a local boy, Hardy Greaves and caddy Bagger Vance to help him find his lost swing. Though it is never made explicit, Vance is an angel and the film is really about redemption, the golf scenes...