Alan Arkin is great in every movie role he takes . . .

Rating: 9/10 (17 May 2014)

. . . and his jaded, semi-retired baseball scout character "Ray" in the current MILLION DOLLAR ARM is no exception. Based on a true story, ARM explores how a vast country on the verge of becoming the most populous on earth can get about half of America's formerly good-paying jobs through out-sourcing and YET NOT HAVE A SINGLE PLAYER on any major league baseball team (or NFL football, NBA basketball, or NHL hockey, for that matter). It's not as if major league athletes are paid peanuts nowadays. Thanks to their proudly-worn Union label, the thousands of major league pros AVERAGE MORE THAN A MILLON BUCKS PER MAN!! How then has the suction effect of globalization that has swirled the livelihoods of so many non-famous middle class Americans down the toilet to the other side of the world NOT managed to fill at least half the pro athlete slots with Indians from India? (The Cleveland Indians could become politically correct by hiring 35 or 40 of them in one fell swoop.) If you watch MILLION DOLLAR ARM you'll see the solution to one of this century's great mysteries.