Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams provide some nice charms as father and daughter in Trouble with the Curve

Rating: 7/10 (24 September 2012)

Despite not liking Mr. Eastwood's recent appearance at the Republican National Convention (Really, he used a chair as a prop and pretended it was President Barack Obama and imagined he told him to do something to himself?), I decided to watch his latest movie with my movie theatre-working friend because I still like his acting work. And as an elderly baseball scout who might be losing his bearings, Clint can still bring the charm and the chemistry when performing with the likes of Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, and especially, Amy Adams as his daughter who can be just as stubborn as him. An added benefit to me was when both Eastwood and Adams, separately, were thinking of better times when they started singing the song, "You Are My Sunshine" which was a tune my late dad frequently warbled during his lifetime (though he always skipped the part that went "When skies are gray") even before we moved here to Baton Rouge in 1975 and eventually discovered it was co-written and sung by a former Governor of our state Louisiana named Jimmie Davis. Really, all I'll say now is I recommend Trouble with the Curve.