This movie has everything

Rating: 9/10 (2 November 2013)

This movie has everything. A first-rate script, fine acting by the leads, good directing. What more could you ask?
Eastwood is first rate as an aging baseball scout who doesn't want to come to terms with the effect of aging on his body and his career.
Amy Adams, in the best role I have seen her in, plays an ambitious young lawyer who is willing to put her chances for a law partnership in danger to help a father who was seldom there for her.
Granted, the final minutes where Eastwood's character explains why his daughter didn't often see him when she was growing up, though realistic, still don't make him a lovable character. But life is sometimes like that.
This is a first class movie all the way. It is not warm and cuddly. It has all sorts of rough edges. But it is a better movie for all that.