Starring: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman
Director: Robert Lorenz
If Clint Eastwood is attached to something these days, you can pretty much be guaranteed of two things. One, it's going to be good and two, you'll cry. Whether he is behind the camera as well as in front of it, or in this case, just in front , a Clint Eastwood movie is always an experience you won't regret.
The trailer for this was great, very engaging and really set the story. For those of you who see the trailer and think it's a sports movie, yes, it's a movie with baseball in it, but it's not a movie about baseball. It is the story of a father and daughter whose strained relationship comes to breaking point.
Mickey, (Amy Adams), is a successful lawyer whose life consists of work, work and work. She barely has time for a steady relationship let alone a relationship with her father who left her when her mother died at the age of 6.
Gus, (Clint Eastwood), is a successful baseball scout who has a knack for picking some of the best players the sport has ever seen, but age is catching up with him. Gus realises that he is starting to go blind, but being stubborn, he refuses to believe it will affect his job and takes on a scouting job in North Carolina.
Mickey is forced to realise that her father needs help and even though it's a bad time for her with her firm pushing to make her a partner, she takes the road trip and meets up with her father to try and convince him that he needs help.
Along the way we meet Johnny, (Justin Timberlake), a washed up baseball player that has now become a scout for the Red Sox. Johnny's career only came about due to Gus picking him for the Braves many years ago, but he is forced to give it up when his arm is injured.
Together, Mickey and Gus check out the Braves newest target, Bo Gentry, a hot headed, cocky player who supposedly has the best batting skills anyone has ever seen. Gus thinks the only way to know if a player is good or not is to watch them in action. But back in the office, younger and less experienced Phillip (Matthew Lillard), believes you can pick a player by looking at his stats on a computer, making Gus an antique and due to be put out to pasture.
Some of the most powerful scenes in the movie are the simplest, which is why I loved this so much.
Amy Adams was fantastic as Clint Eastwoods equally stubborn daughter and they worked very well together. Even Timberlake keeps proving he can not only sing, but he can act as well.
This was a brilliant movie, and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone, whether you're a baseball fan or not.
Along the way we meet Johnny, (Justin Timberlake), a washed up baseball player that has now become a scout for the Red Sox. Johnny's career only came about due to Gus picking him for the Braves many years ago, but he is forced to give it up when his arm is injured.
Together, Mickey and Gus check out the Braves newest target, Bo Gentry, a hot headed, cocky player who supposedly has the best batting skills anyone has ever seen. Gus thinks the only way to know if a player is good or not is to watch them in action. But back in the office, younger and less experienced Phillip (Matthew Lillard), believes you can pick a player by looking at his stats on a computer, making Gus an antique and due to be put out to pasture.
Some of the most powerful scenes in the movie are the simplest, which is why I loved this so much.
Amy Adams was fantastic as Clint Eastwoods equally stubborn daughter and they worked very well together. Even Timberlake keeps proving he can not only sing, but he can act as well.
This was a brilliant movie, and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone, whether you're a baseball fan or not.
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