Thunder and Lightning

May. 04,2015 NR

Rating：

7.9

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

College Baseball Mississippi River

Trailer Synopsis Cast

The best team never to win the College World Series? It might have been the 1985 Mississippi State Bulldogs, who produced four Major League Baseball All-Stars. Two of them, Bobby Thigpen and Jeff Brantley, became Relievers of the Year, while the other two, Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro, formed the imposing one-two hitting punch known as "Thunder and Lightning." The brash and bold Clark was born in New Orleans, the son of a pool hustler, while the soft-spoken and shy Palmeiro was a son of Cuban immigrants who did his talking at the plate. As teammates at Mississippi State, they nearly propelled the Bulldogs to a College World Series title. Thirty years later, director Rory Karpf revisits those fabled Bulldogs, tracks the complicated relationship between Clark and Palmeiro, and brings closure to men who should be remembered for what they did, and not for what they didn't do.

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Reviews

Stevecorp

2015/05/04

Don't listen to the negative reviews

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Stellead

2015/05/05

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

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Sexyloutak

2015/05/06

Absolutely the worst movie.

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Curapedi

2015/05/07

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

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