At best a standing triple instead of a grand-slam.

Rating: 8/10 (22 October 2012)

TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (2012) *** Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, John Goodman, Jason Timberlake, Matthew Lillard, Robert Patrick, Chelcie Ross, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Ed Lauter, George Wyner, Bob Gunton, Jack Gilpin, Clifton Guterman. Hit-and-miss baseball melodrama with crusty Clint as a grouchy elderly major league baseball scout whose fading eyesight may hinder his chances of his continuing career, unless his estranged daughter Adams (acquitting herself nicely with some pep and spunk), a career oriented attorney with eyes on a promotion to partner, will accompany him for an important prospect. Directed by longtime Eastwood collaborative Robert Lorenz the film mistakenly adds Timberlake as an ex-player turned scout who slows things down in an unlikely romantic pairing with Adams but isn't the only thing making the movies putter along (some editing here and there could've helped and the screenplay by novice Randy Brown is bush league at best. But it's always a pleasure to see Eastwood have some fun along the way even if his aging grump is getting a tad long in the tooth. At best a standing triple instead of a grand-slam.