Trouble With Curve is No Foul Out ***1/2

Rating: 9/10 (1 June 2013)

A wonderful old-time baseball yarn with Clint Eastwood in top form as a baseball scout, whose eyesight may be failing, but whose insight is as keen as ever.
Along the way, Eastwood, or Gus, a widower, has to contend with his attorney-daughter, Mickey, played wonderfully by Amy Adams. Frustrated by feeling that her father abandoned her, Mickey abandons her pursuits temporarily when her father's eyesight is becoming a major problem.
The baseball scouts are an odd kind of entity, with each one trying to outdo the other in the baseball prospects along the way.
This film is even more than about the game, it's a woman's discovery of why her father really left her, her falling in love, the hopes, aspirations and attitudes of prospective players, as well as their dreams.