The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 2000 American film directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron. state of Georgia in 1931. This was Jack Lemmon's final film before his death in 2001.

On release, the film was attacked by several African American commentators and reviewers for using the "magical negro" as a plot device.[2][3][4] Since the film's release, some in the mainstream media have also described the film Shonn Greene Titans Jersey as flawed and racially insensitive.[5]Promising golfer Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) is Savannah, Georgia's favorite son, and Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron) is his beautiful girlfriend from a rich family. 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,[6] as Bobby Jones retired from golf at age 28, during the Great Depression), Adele is trying to recover her family's lost fortune by holding a fourround, twoday exhibition match between Jones (Joel Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (Bruce McGill), the best golfers of the era, with a grand prize of $10,000. She's holding it at Shonn Greene Jersey 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.

Junuh is Sammie Lee Hill Titans Jersey approached by a mysterious traveler carrying a suitcase who appears while Junuh is trying to hit golf balls into the dark void of night. The man identifies himself as Bagger Vance (Will Smith) and says he will be Junuh's caddy. He then helps Junuh to come to grips with his personal demons and helps him to play golf again.

When the match starts, Jones and Hagen each play well in their distinctive ways, but Sammie Lee Hill Jersey Junuh plays poorly and is far behind after the first round. With Bagger caddying for him and giving advice, Junuh rediscovers his "authentic swing" in the second round and makes up some ground. In the third round, closes the gap even more. Junuh and Adele also find their romance rekindling.

Late in the final round, Junuh disregards Bagger's advice at a crucial point and after that plays poorly. He hits a ball into a forest, where he has a traumatic World War I flashback, but Bagger's words help him to focus on golf. Junuh pulls back to a tie with Jones and Hagen, then has a chance to win on the final hole, but calls a penalty on himself when his ball moves after he tries to remove an obstacle.

Seeing from this that Junuh has grown and matured, Bagger decides his golfer doesn't need him any more. Bagger leaves him as mysteriously as he met him, with the 18th hole unfinished. Though losing a chance to win because of the penalty, Junuh sinks an improbable putt to tie Jones and Hagen, so the match ends in a gentlemanly tie, the three golfers shake hands with all of Savannah cheering, and Junuh and Adele get back together.

During the match, Bagger Vance has a young assistant, Hardy Greaves (J. Michael Moncrief), who caddies after Bagger leaves. The beginning of the film features Hardy as an old man (Jack Lemmon) playing golf in the present day. Hardy experiences a heart attack and loses conciousness. The story ends with an old Hardy awakening and seeing a neveraging Bagger Vance on the golf course. Bagger beckons, Hardy follows.

Will Authentic Sammie Lee Hill Jersey Smith as Bagger Vance

Matt Damon as Rannulph Junuh

Charlize Theron as Authentic Shonn Greene Jersey Adele Invergordon

Bruce McGill as Walter Hagen

Joel Gretsch as Bobby Jones

J. Michael Moncrief as young Hardy Greaves

Lane Smith as Grantland Rice

Jack Lemmon (uncredited) as old Hardy GreavesThe plot is roughly based on the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita, where the Warrior/Hero Arjuna (R. Junuh) refuses to fight. The god Krishna appears as Bhagavan (Bagger Vance) to help him to follow his path as the warrior and hero that he was meant to be. This relationship was fully explained by Steven J. Rosen in his book Gita on the Green, for which Steven Pressfield wrote the foreword.[7]

Reaction from movie critics was mixed. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 42% based on 128 reviews.[8]

Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave it 3 stars, said, "It handles a sports movie the way Billie Holiday handled a trashy song, by finding the love and pain beneath the story. It was mostly written by Rachel Portman, except for tracks one ("My Best Wishes"), thirteen ("Bluin' the Blues") and fourteen ("Mood Indigo"), which were written by Fats Waller, Muggsy Spanier and Duke Ellington, respectively.