Read my mind. Report this review. Adult Written by davidrox January 24, A very good movie, mixed with heart, but lots of language and drinking. Amy Adams, and Clint Eastwood star in this wonderful uplifting drama. Adult Written by Shivom Oza October 28, An ageing baseball scout, Gus Lobel Clint Eastwood , is struggling to retain his position in his organization. His daughter Mickey Amy Adams , who holds a grudge against her father for bailing on her during childhood, joins him on a trip to North Carolina where Gus is scouting for new talent.
Gus Lobel Clint Eastwood is an ageing baseball scout, who is losing his vision, struggling to keep his place in his organization. Mickey has her own grievances at her workplace where she has been recently appointed as a partner. The story revolves around these three self-respecting, imperfect and gifted individuals. The actors, Eastwood, Adams and Timberlake, deliver fine performances.
Their characters were very real, very human, and thus, so full of infirmities. The understated performances and subtle dialogues make this film very relatable to audiences across the globe. The screenplay is a bit long than one would have liked, but the film does end on high!
Writer Randy Brown has written a fine, albeit simplistic, story that really strikes a chord with the viewer. Eastwood's appeal here is bedrock authority. He knows baseball, and he knows he knows it. Amy Adams, the embodiment of lovability since " Junebug " , takes a standard role and makes us value it.
Timberlake finds the right note for a basically one-note character. John Goodman embodies the guy who you hope has your back in the front office, and has a tense scene here where he makes a very hard call. But it's a superior entertainment, moving down somewhat predictable paths with an authenticity and humanity that appeals. But he isn't that far from the director's chair because Robert Lorenz , this film's first-time helmer, has helped produce Eastwood's last 12 films, and was a second-unit director on others.
Any Eastwood film is notable above all for its professionalism. If the story here has certain foreseeable moments, that's not to say they aren't set up well and deliver right on time. We might suspect that Bo Gentry and Peanut Boy Jay Galloway may meet again, but how it happens and how Mickey is involved, is classic movie gold. There are so many traffic jams in the typical recent hyperkinetic movie that to find a sound story this well told is a pleasure. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in See our privacy policy.
A lot or a little? The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Positive Messages. Positive Role Models. What parents need to know Parents need to know that Trouble with the Curve -- a carefully rendered portrait of a baseball scout Clint Eastwood facing the possible end of his career -- pulls no punches in portraying what life on the road can do to a father and his daughter.
Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Adult Written by spiritpants1 July 21, Wonderful movie This movie has great performances across the board and wonderful character development, which most movies lack.
Good movie about baseball and also say's a Continue reading. Report this review. Adult Written by davidrox January 24, A very good movie, mixed with heart, but lots of language and drinking. Amy Adams, and Clint Eastwood star in this wonderful uplifting drama. Teen, 16 years old Written by Javier Noyola February 18, Kid, 12 years old August 6, What's the story?
Is it any good? Talk to your kids about Is Gus a good father? Our editors recommend. Field of Dreams. Baseball crowd pleaser with a supernatural twist. For Love of the Game. Fantastic, inspiring baseball drama covers all its bases. An older man with vision problems hits the sides of his garage five times while backing his car out, squealing the tires to a stop.
An elderly man stumbles over chairs, curses and kicks a coffee table across the room and out of his way; we see other broken furniture in corners. An elderly man awakens from a nightmare in which he sees a black horse charging him.
A baseball player nearly gets hit in the groin with a baseball pitched at him, jumping back just in time. An overweight pitcher high school baseball player shouts at another player and threatens to beat the second boy for calling him "Bacon Boy. A friend goes to an elderly man's house and asks about the mess furniture toppled over, smoke, etc.
Throughout the film, an adult daughter and her elderly father argue about their careers, health and what might be best for either of them at their stages of life; the daughter often cries and leaves the room. An older man and his bosses at a baseball club argue about whether computers are useful in scouting high school ball players for the major leagues; the older man refuses to use a computer, cursing about the uselessness of technology.
A man in a car in a parking lot and a woman argue about him losing his job and he drives away erratically as she stands in the lot.
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