An affecting sports drama packed with great performances, including a particularly endearing one from Robert De Niro.

Very dull, very boring. Couldn't connect with any of the characters. The only thing that elevated it was its great cast. De Niro. Gardenia. Aiello. I also think it's hilarious that Robert De Niro worked with Harry Potter Sr. from Troll.

What it has in authenticity it gives up in creativity. It's a chore to listen to a script dumbed down to mimick pro athletes. And the dark secret of PEARSON's illness hampers any hope of quirky humour or surprising plot twists.

A gem of a movie. Sweet and hilarious. A good realistic view of minor league baseball. There is no false not in this movie. Glorifies kindness.

The film was hardly about baseball and it hardly had De Niro in it. Quite a disappointment.

I love this movie. It's not just about baseball, but about kindness and compassion for others.

Not just a great baseball movie, it's a great movie period.

Melodramatic but the performances are strong.

Good for the baseball fan.

Has not aged well and can we all agree Michael Moriarity is the worst actor of the 70s? Fun to see young De Niro but that’s about it.

The best inspiring sports movie ever made!

This movie is a must for your Bucket List I saw this movie with my Dad at the theater! A MUST.

Bang the Drum Slowly is a terrific film. It about the friendship between a star pitcher and a half-wit catcher. Michael Moriarty and Robert De Niro give excellent performances. The screenplay is well written. John D. Hancock did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the drama. Bang the Drum Slowly is a must see.

It was great as a tv show and better with the movie. Sad and timeless.

I mean it's a fair effort, but it's good that De Niro found his actual strengths after Bang The Drum Slowly.

A classic tearjerker? Not so much. "Bang the Drum Slowly" is a remake of a '50s television production, and is presumably inferior to the original. Michael Moriarty gives his usual distant, blank-faced performance as a star major-league pitcher who, for no apparent reason, is best friends forever with his hick catcher who's dying of Hodgkin's Disease (Robert Deniro). Seeing the young Deniro is the best reason to watch, but his character fails to generate much affection and is saddled with a revolting wad of chewing tobacco from beginning to end. Awkwardly, the pair's team is a "fictional" franchise that wears Yankee uniforms but is called the Mammoths instead. Vincent Gardenia is typically strong as the manager, and Barbara Babcock is an interesting casting choice as the Mammoths owner (she played a different role in the '50s version). But the broad characterization of the second-string catcher (a gun-toting, singing cowboy whose rendition of "Streets of Laredo" supplies the movie's title) is ridiculous. The drippy musical score is another problem. The early '70s was full of these manipulative "disease of the week" films (blame "Love Story"), but "Brian's Song" is the only one that has aged well.

A baseball classic...this is such a great story. I love this film. De Niro and Moriarty are awesome in this film.

The relationship between Moriarty and DeNiro is underdeveloped, but they each make the most of their scenes and the pacing is on the money.

Such a 70s style movie-similar in many ways to M.A.S.H., but not as good or well written as to character development.

This is a very 70's movie, slow and very depressing. The best part is a young Robert De Niro. Maybe this is a film for baseball fans which i am not. Its a sweet movie but past its prime.