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Trouble with the Curve :: Rogerebert.Com :: Reviews movie reviews Reviews Great Movies Answer Man People Commentary Festivals Oscars Glossary One-Minute Reviews Letters Roger Ebert's Journal Scanners Store News Sports Business Entertainment Classifieds Columnists search TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG-13) Ebert: Users: You: Rate this movie right now GO Search powered by YAHOO! register You are not logged in. Log in » Subscribe to weekly newsletter » times & tickets in theaters Fandango Trouble with the Curve Search movie About Cherry showtimes and buy The Ambassador tickets. BY ROGER EBERT / September 19, 2012 Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Frankenweenie Gus has been a baseball The Paperboy about us scout so long he can judge Taken 2 a batter by the sound when cast & credits V/H/S his bat connects with the The Well-Digger's Daughter About the site » ball. Did he always have Gus Clint Eastwood more current releases » Site FAQs » this ability, or did it develop Mickey Amy Adams in recent years when his Pete Klein John Goodman one-minute movie reviews Contact us » eyesight began to fail? The Johnny Justin Timberlake Atlanta Braves are on the Bo Joe Massingil still playing Email the Movie edge of retiring him, but not Smitty Chelcie Ross Answer Man » if Gus (Clint Eastwood) has Watson Bob Gunton About Cherry anything to say about it. He Vince Robert Patrick leads a lonely life, driving Alps The Ambassador on sale now between small cities, sitting Warner Bros. presents a film Arbitrage in the stands of minor The Awakening league clubs, living in directed by Robert Lorenz. Written by Randy Brown. Running time: The Babymakers budget motels, but he loves Beloved 111 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for it. Bill W. language, sexual references, The Bourne Legacy His boss and friend, Pete thematic material and smoking). A Burning Hot Summer Klein (John Goodman), The Campaign senses Gus' problems and Celeste and Jesse Forever appeals to the old man's Chicken with Plums daughter to check him out Compliance Buy now » on the road. She is Mickey Cosmopolis The Curators of Dixon School (Amy Adams), estranged Printer-friendly » The Dark Knight Rises from her father for years. E-mail this to a friend » She caves in and tracks Detropia Elena him to the sunburned End of Watch bleachers he occupies with Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare other scouts and a handful Farewell, My Queen of fans. He's focusing on a For a Good Time Call... phenom named Bo Gentry (Joe Massingil), who is pudgy, but that Frankenweenie Buy now » doesn't slow him down because he slugs homers with the frequency Head Games of Babe Ruth. Hello I Must Be Going Hit and Run This Bo isn't a nice guy. "Hey, Peanut Boy!" he calls to a vendor who Hope Springs tosses him a bag of peanuts. Bo doesn't see any need to pay him for How to Survive a Plague the snack. Gus growls when he's joined by Mickey, who for that Ice Age: Continental Drift matter isn't too thrilled to see him. She's a hot-shot lawyer in a big Killer Joe Atlanta firm, in line for a partnership. But she sees her dad could use Kumare Lawless some help, and we learn she never wanted to be a lawyer, anyway. Liberal Arts All she's ever loved is baseball. Buy now » Little White Lies Looper We settle now into a routine of discount motel rooms and bars and The Master grills, as they cross paths with Johnny (Justin Timberlake), a pitcher grills, as they cross paths with Johnny (Justin Timberlake), a pitcher who was originally recruited by Gus and then blew out his arm; he's Neil Young Journeys now scouting for a season on the way to what he hopes will be an Nobody Else But You announcing job. Johnny and Mickey grow sweet about each other, The Odd Life of Timothy Green and Gus begins to soften until it's time for a heart to heart with his Oslo, August 31 daughter. That doesn't come easy for a man with a thick skin. The Paperboy The Perks of Being a Wallflower Pitch Perfect Eastwood's appeal here is bedrock authority. He knows baseball, and The Possession he knows he knows it. Amy Adams, the embodiment of lovability Buy now » Premium Rush since "Junebug" (2005), takes a standard role and makes us value it. The Queen of Versailles Timberlake finds the right note for a basically one-note character. Qwerty John Goodman embodies the guy who you hope has your back in the Red Hook Summer front office, and has a tense scene here where he makes a very hard Red Lights call. Robot and Frank Ruby Sparks "Trouble With the Curve" isn't a great sports film, like Eastwood's Sacrifice "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). But it's a superior entertainment, moving Samsara down somewhat predictable paths with an authenticity and humanity Searching for Sugar Man A Simple Life Buy now » that appeals. It's his first film since "In the Line of Fire" (1993) in Sleepless Night which he acts but didn't direct. But he isn't that far from the director's Sleepwalk with Me chair because Robert Lorenz, this film's first-time helmer, has helped Snowman's Land produce Eastwood's last 12 films, and was a second-unit director on Sparkle others. Step Up Revolution Take This Waltz Any Eastwood film is notable above all for its professionalism. If the Taken 2 story here has certain foreseeable moments, that's not to say they Total Recall aren't set up well and deliver right on time. We might suspect that Bo Trishna Gentry and Peanut Boy (Jay Galloway) may meet again, but how it Trouble with the Curve Buy now » happens and how Mickey is involved, is classic movie gold. There are 2 Days in New York so many traffic jams in the typical recent hyperkinetic movie that to Unforgiveable find a sound story this well told is a pleasure. V/H/S El Velador The Watch The Well-Digger's Daughter Why Stop Now Won't Back Down The Words TV Portals Canada Buy now» TV Links Canada more current releases » www.TVPortals.ca on dvd Watch Movies Online Free Full Movies. Unlimited Access. new on dvd video-buzz.com/Free-Movies more new on dvd » Watch Free TV Shows! Buy now» Watch shows like Breaking Bad, coming on dvd http://www.drozzi.com more coming on dvd » The Satellite Shop Online Dish, Direct, FTA, great movies on dvd www.TheSatelliteShop.net more great movies on dvd » Ads by Yahoo! Buy now» © copyright 2012, rogerebert.com Privacy Policy Terms of Use Submission Guidelines.
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