" BackgroundBull Durham (1988)is a humorous and intelligent romantic sports comedy-drama about a mediocre Carolina minor leagues baseball team - the Durham Bulls, from first-time director Ron Shelton." Joey: "All right.This is the drink that we never had before"), but then another brief scuffle and flurry of insults momentarily broke out between them.The film clearly reflected its mid-1950s era - a time of greater equality for women, consumerism, and expansion of racial equality.A graduate of the class of 1979 in Haddonfield, she had relocated to Northern California, where she became successful as the headmistress of the secluded private prep boarding school (behind wrought-iron gates) called Hillcrest Academy, in Summer Glen.