Clint continues the good kind of typecasting

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2014)

In 2012 Clint Eastwood became a punchline due to his conversation with a chair at the Republican National Convention. Even so, "Trouble with the Curve" is still worth seeing. He plays an aging talent scout for the Atlanta Braves. Likely to get soon get forced out of his job, he has a strained relationship with his daughter (Amy Adams). He realizes that he has to go out and find the team a new player.
Eastwood has played a lot of crotchety old men in the past few years and was starting to get typecast in that role. He had said after "Gran Torino" that he wasn't going to act anymore, but it was obviously possible to convince him to do this one last role. A bit like what happens with some of the characters that he's played. The movie isn't a masterpiece but is worth seeing. Who would've ever guessed that the guy on the old western TV series would still be playing these fine roles into his 80s?