Trouble with the Curve. Promo German Trailer. UK Trailer. Dutch Trailer. Italian Trailer. French Trailer. Spanish Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Clint Eastwood Gus as Gus. Amy Adams Mickey as Mickey. Justin Timberlake Johnny as Johnny. Chelcie Ross Smitty as Smitty. Ed Lauter Max as Max. Clifton Guterman Neil as Neil. George Wyner Rosenbloom as Rosenbloom. Bob Gunton Watson as Watson. Jack Gilpin Schwartz as Schwartz. Robert Patrick Vince as Vince.
Matt Bush Danny as Danny. Adult Written by davyborn September 22, Clint Eastwood baseball drama is sentimental but satisfying Robert Lorenz's Trouble with the Curve, is a soft spoken, reasonably pleasent, but not all that memorable, baseball movie, which just so happens to star Clint Eastwood in his first role since 's excellent Gran Torino. Now, the first thing that you may find yourself asking is, is this film as good as Gran Torino?
Not if it's life depended on it. But, I don't think that ithat s a very fair movie to compare this one to, because Trouble with the Curve is a sweet drama about an aging baseball scout Clint Eastwood , who, finding himself becoming more and more bitter, and losing his eyesight, is accompanied by his annoyed daughter Amy Adams , on one last trip to scout out some new hopeful talent. Now, this film has an excellent cast. Of course, there is Clint Eastwood, and the obviously previously mentioned Amy Adams in the role of his daughter, but the cast also contains such familiar faces such as John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Mathew Lilliard and Robert Patrick, who are all very good.
And yet, despite the fact that you would probably expect to be watching this movie with the stail eroma of ancient-used drama cliches, the movie still manages to keep a fresh face, none the less, and it is definitely one of the most comfortable and easy movies to watch, making it one of the more pleasant movies to come around in some time.
Still, the movie is Rated PG for a reason, and the following content is pretty much as follows, so, here we go: There is not much in the way of violence in this film, but there are two scenes that stick out.
Both of which are scenes of Eastwoods character defending his daughter, with the first one o him attacking a drunk bar-goer with a broken beer bottle after he tires to hit on her, and later, a rather disturbing and upsetting scene where he brutally beats although mostly unseen an implied child molestor half to death in a shed.
Also, there is frequent sexual references, whicha re mostly in the form of crude dialoge, which some lines being so graphic that practically no childrne in the audience we even be able to understand them in the first place.
Also, there is frequent alchol consumption,. And, finally, the mainr eason why the film gets a PG Rating in the first place is mainly becuase of the frequent and mdoerate profanity, which include one very powerful and memorable use of f--k, but there are also many uses of sh-t, cr-p, d-mn, g-dd-mn, a--, a--h-le, d-ck, b-tch and more.
So, in the end, Trouble with the Curve is a fairly enjoyable and pleasant baseball drama, but, considering the fact that Clint Eastwood is involved, you just think that it would be so much more memorable than it actually is.
Go to Common Sense Review. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Print. But she sees her dad could use some help, and we learn she never wanted to be a lawyer, anyway. All she's ever loved is baseball. We settle now into a routine of discount motel rooms and bars and 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 now scouting for a season on the way to what he hopes will be an announcing job.
Johnny and Mickey grow sweet about each other, and Gus begins to soften until it's time for a heart to heart with his daughter. That doesn't come easy for a man with a thick skin.
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. I think 95 percent of the actors in Hollywood fit this description. Tall, square jaws, ripped biceps and flat stomachs. They might not all be athletes, but they sure as hell look like ones. Bo Gentry, you would think, would be the easiest role to cast in the film.
I have no issue with him. Again, on the surface here, everything makes sense. Timberlake plays a former big-time prospect who blew out his arm and is now scouting for the Red Sox. No issues there… until Timberlake opens up to Adams and shares his goal: to become a broadcaster for the Red Sox. So why, exactly, is he scouting? Vin Scully, Gary Cohen — not scouts.
Keith Hernandez, John Smoltz — these are former athletes that became full-time broadcasters by, you know, actually broadcasting games. Of course, these are just small pieces.
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