The Rookie
It is a film that captures the story of a coach who is trying to realize his dreams, which are always in his imagination. Perhaps it is not too late for the man's dreams to come true, as he performs the main league during that period. It was agreed that there will be a high school team that will eventually have the playoffs.
25 December 1939, Midwest City, Oklahoma, USA
9 January 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
19 January 1942, Emporia, Virginia, USA
1 November 1976, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA
31 July 1970, Victoria, Texas, USA
18 December 1955, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
28 July 1949, Jackson, Tennessee, USA
19 January 1964, Brownwood, Texas, USA
January 22, 2013
Slow moving, even pedestrian at times, yet this Dennis Quaid vehicle strikes a lot of genuinely heartwarming moments along the way.
July 14, 2011
Earnest, uplifting baseball melodrama
May 12, 2014
This entry in the genre is a true story that is, sadly, hampered by some signposted plot developments and undernourished characters.
March 12, 2013
It's Quaid and his fellow actors, Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox, who lift the film out of its intermittent doldrums, and together they deliver that rare thing: a nuanced sports movie.
May 12, 2014
Refreshing and compelling.
March 12, 2013
Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be.
May 12, 2014
Morris ultimately lasted two partial seasons in the majors, and the film's rendering of his minor-league struggle is so enjoyable you want to see more of that and less of the everyday life preceding it.
March 12, 2013
The Rookie is shot through with star-spangled sentiment, but its light touch and "true story" origins combine to make it feelgood fun even for schmaltz-phobic Brits.
May 12, 2014
Though Hancock traffics in a lot of bogus small-town sentiment, The Rookie exhibits a refreshingly honest understanding of baseball as a job, with long road trips away from home and a workmanlike routine.
February 23, 2012
Deftly constructed to stoke the baseball-phenom fantasies of coulda-shoulda-woulda middle-aged guys and fields-of-dreaming young diamond studs.
May 12, 2014
At two-plus hours, The Rookie is a good 20 minutes too long, but for father-son teams waiting eagerly for the umpire's "Play ball!", it's an uplifting season opener.
