Directed By: Craig Gillespie (Fright Night remake) Starring: Jon Hamm, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Pitobash, Lake Bell, Aasif Mandvi
Rating: PG for mild language and some suggestive content
Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
Synopsis: J.B. Bernstein (Hamm) is an L.A. sports agent on the verge of seeing his company go out of business. One night while watching cricket he becomes inspired to created a TV competition show called "Million Dollar Arm" where he'll try to comb India for any talent he might be able to shape into baseball players worthy of a major league tryout. Discovering a pair of boys named Rinku (Sharma) and Dinesh (Mattel), J.B. brings them stateside where they experience their first taste away from home and try to fulfill their dreams of playing baseball.
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello readers! Look at that! We're back with our 2nd review of the weekend! We're hopefully gonna be able to see more movies and crank out more reviews as the weather warms up and our work schedules settle down a little bit, and what better way to kick off a two-review weekend than with a baseball movie?
Yesterday Sarah and I saw the new
Disney film Million Dollar Arm, starring Jon Hamm, based on
the true story of sports agent J.B. Bernstein and his creation of the Million
Dollar Arm TV show/talent competition to find cricket players in India that could maybe have the raw talent to hone and one day become Major League Baseball players.
Sarah, this is a film that you've been looking forward to
for a little bit now, so now that we've seen it what are your initial thoughts
on it?
Sarah: It was so cute! I have been looking forward to this one for a little while.
We like Jon Hamm in Mad Men but like to see him playing
different characters away from Don Draper, cuz that guy's kind of a jerk. And let's be
honest, J.B. Bernstein is kind of a jerk, too, but definitely one that grows in
this movie.
