Bobby Jones - Stroke of Genius
The Movie and the Man

What the critics are saying about the film:

"BOBBY JONES - STROKE OF GENIUS is the most underrated movie of the year. It is very human history. It's not just a male movie; it's about family, relationships, and friends. Jeremy Northam is terrific as Walter Hagen. It has winning performances by Jim Caviezel, Malcolm McDowell, and the winsome Clair Forlani. It's as sure and effective as an eagle putt. Bobby Jones was the original Smarty Jones."
--Tony Macklin, ESPN Radio

" ... BOBBY JONES can score with the entire family."
--Stan Urankar,Cleveland Sun Newspaper

"A gorgeous, moving look at one of the world's greatest athletes. The best story about courage and determination since The Rookie. Caveziel hits a "hole-in-one" performance. You don't have to be a golf fan to love Bobby Jones!"
--Dean Richards, WGN-TV (WB) & WGN Radio, Chicago

"STROKE OF GENIUS is captivating. It is more than a story of an athlete and champion. It is the story of great man that is set in the and around the game of golf. The film is brilliantly shot, and the settings flawless. For a time I forgot I was watching a movie but felt that I was actually there reliving Bobby Jones' quest for the Grand Slam. I look forward to sharing this film with my children and hope that they will find inspiration in this timeless story of commitment, determination and ultimate triumph."
--MG Orender, President, PGA of America

"Bobby Jones has a golf swing remembered as sheer poetry in motion, and much of the movie about him demonstrates the same grace."
--Michael Booth, The Denver Post

"A dreamlike look at a storybook hero. BOBBY JONES - STROKE OF GENIUS will transport you to a more innocent time in a way few movies can."
--Jeffrey Lyons, NBC/TV

"Thumbs Up!"
--Ebert

"I really liked the film! Jim [Caviezel] was brilliant...."
--Tom Cuneff, People Magazine

"Counting his appearance as Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Caviezel now has the distinction of being in the two best movies so far this year. BOBBY JONES - STROKE OF GENIUS is superbly edited and photographed. The golf courses and the golf games are lovingly, even poetically, realized. The soaring music by James Horner lifts these images into the sublime....a thoroughly captivating, well-acted movie with many positive lessons about grace under pressure."
--MOVIEGUIDE

"[This] independently produced film boasts all the qualities of a Hollywood movie....At least in broad strokes, the film brings to mind old-fashioned sports biopics such as Pride of the Yankees, but juiced with an '80s lushness and bombast lifted from Chariots of Fire and The Natural....Caviezel turns in his customary intense performance to persuade us of Jones' determination to succeed....The cinematography by Tom Stern, who most recently did Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, captures both the beauty of first dawn glistening on dew-soaked greens and the sleekness of the Jazz Age in all its creamy nostalgia.... Shot in Scotland and Georgia, the visuals have a buffed authenticity, and the costumes and production design are detailed re-creations of the Gatsby-like accoutrements of natty clothes, country clubs and motorcars."
--Kevin Crust, LA Times

"The same spiritual mystique that Chariots of Fire brought to running, is even more hushed in tone than its prototype. Most of the mystical heavy lifting is done by the cinematographer Tom Stern and the composer James Horner, whose string-heavy score blankets the film in lofty, tastefully inspirational layers of gossamer laced with bagpipes and other Scottish flavors."
--Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"...Handsomely made....Caviezel is wonderful. He catches the great golfer's steely determination, sturdy optimism and reflective generosity."
--Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal Constitution