The Vidiot Reviews

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2012)

Trouble With the Curve
The hardest part of being a baseball scout must be propositioning the young prospects without them getting the wrong idea, and beating you with their bat.
Thankfully, the scrutinizer in this drama has his attractive daughter to do the confronting.
Unwilling to rely on computers to pick his players, Atlanta Braves' oldest scout, Gus (Clint Eastwood), is being phased out.
Fortunately, his friend (John Goodman) gets Gus one last shot - so long as his estranged daughter Mickey (Amy Adams) accompanies him.
But helping her absentee dad rejuvenate his career with her intrinsic factoids jeopardizes Mickey's own employment with her law firm.
While the daddy-daughter dynamic between Eastwood and Adams is impassioned, the predictable ending and inclusion of love interest Justin Timberlake injures the overall movie.
Besides, the easiest way to tell if someone's a good pitcher is if they can throw a curveball straight through an old person's body. (Yellow Light)
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