The trouble with baseball movies like trouble with the curve is that. Lorenz, clint eastwoods longtime producing partner, will direct the film starting in september from a script he cowrote with chris charles and danny kravitz. Excluding his casper cameo, this drama marked eastwoods first performance for a director other than himself since 1993s in the line of fire. Trouble is secondrate eastwood, existing in a parallel universe where the celebrity has been reduced to a hallmark movieoftheweek actor, not one of the most respected directors in hollywood. The minuteman is lorenz followup to his directorial debut trouble with the curve, starring eastwood, amy adams and. Trouble with the curve is a 2012 american sports drama film directed by robert lorenz and starring clint eastwood, amy adams, justin timberlake, matthew. Django unchained, trouble with the curve, the sessions and more. Eastwood remains the only consistently enjoyable element in a film leaden with a sepiatinted love of the game and little else to offer. A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last. Trouble with the curve is a lifeless baseball drama that throws a few innings too many. While driving off the beaten path by herself, gorgeous and recently engaged mallory meets a. Drawing on an age old message concerning separated family members the film should hit a home run with those who have been dealing with the problem and need a nudge. The 82yearold actor wasnt going it completely alone, though the poster let his top billing tower over the names of costars amy adams and justin timberlake. This film has a slow start, but just enjoy the beautiful cinematography because you will soon be catapulted into a true horror story.
While watching trouble with the curve, i kept thinking that, in its way, this film is the antimoneyball. Clint eastwoods first film as an actor for a director other than himself since in the line of fire in 1993, trouble with the curve is a corny, conventional and quite enjoyable fatherdaughter. Trouble with the curve is a winning drama directed by robert lorenz with clint eastwood and amy adams hitting one home run after another as a father and daughter on a difficult journey from estrangement to honest intimacy. Filming began in march 2012, and the film was released on september 21. This one is more of a renter or something to watch on tv than a film to catch in. The drama tells the story of gus lobel clint eastwood, one of the best scouts. You would have thought the excellent gran torino would have been clint eastwoods swansong in front of the camera. Have symptoms of retinal detachment such as floaters or flashes of light in your vision. And a part of me did, but the basic premise of the film, its stats vs. I know im not exactly inventing the wheel here, but i have been treading one moderately welltrodden path recently. There is usually an important reveal in an eastwood film and this film is no exception, usually on an emotional level or on a logical.
And justin timberlake has a role absolutely meant for him. There seems to be a completely different film going on. It wont be remembered as a great baseball movie, but its good enough. Clint eastwoods character is so surly and changes so little throughout the majority of the movie that he is difficult to like, which is bad for the character who spends the most time onscreen. The problem with this film is that, beyond the surface, there isnt much which resonates with the audience. Trouble with the curve, this autumns boysofsummer movie, is a. Adams is absolutely winning in this role, which requires her to be a. Check out this exclusive video clip, below, from the featurette trouble with the curve. Eastwood is convincing as a grumbling old man who rails against the indignities of old age and the younger generations. I do not think that this film was utterly brilliant, but it was thoroughly entertaining.
Shop trouble with the curve bluray 2012 at best buy. The movie is competently made lorenz style is very reminiscent of eastwoods work. Warner bros put up a trailer today for trouble with the curve with clint eastwood as a veteran baseball scout whose daughter, played by amy adams, accompanies him on a trip to check out a hot. Squinting balefully at even the most minor annoyance, and rasping out a succession of mildly profane wisecracks, he generates more than enough star power to keep the film on track. Trouble with the curve is the antimoneyball, last years oscarnominated film about the 2002 oakland as and general manager billy beanes hightech approach to baseball.
This movie, a baseball movie, is the just the second sports movie in which clint eastwood has acted. Comedy duo thomas middleditch and ben schwartz turn small ideas into epically funny stories in this series of completely improvised comedy specials. It performed way below analyst expectations, bringing in. The film revolves around an aging baseball scout whose daughter joins him on a scouting trip. Trouble with the curve is a 2012 american sports drama film directed by robert lorenz and starring clint eastwood, amy adams, justin timberlake, matthew lillard, and john goodman. This is a confused film that doesnt seem to truly grasp what is central to the story. Long stretches of trouble with the curve make you wish you had other ways to occupy yourself. Trouble with the curve where to stream and watch decider. Cringeworthy, toecurling and completely addictive, meet your new netflix binge1h ago.
For the love of the game included in the films upcoming bluray combo pack, out dec. Trouble with the curve isnt so base as to equate everything modern with evil, but its encouragement to slow down and smell the roses creeps into the fabric of the film until a pulse is almost undetectable. The latest movie to star clint eastwood, marking the icons first onscreen appearance since 2008s gran torino, is director robert lorenzs baseball drama trouble with the curve. He must have found the script for trouble with the curve compelling enough that he had a change of heart. The trouble with trouble with the curve lies in its portrayal of baseball, which is old school, antiintellectual, and downright wrong. Ultimately, though, trouble with the curve rises and falls with eastwood, who keeps the material from drifting into cornball territory by sheer force of will. Most often, trouble with the curve is fixed on the rewardfree taming of an old beast, the slow cracking of his hard shell coinciding with his victory over onedimensional villains as a hollowly cutthroat hotshot who swears by the moneyball method, matthew lillard is. Yeah, its completely intimidating, she told access hollywood. Movies, on the other hand, need to absorb us completely. You need immediate treatment to save vision in that eye. I definitely wanted to please him, but i had to get over that as i was playing his daughter who is not impressed with. Trouble with the curve felt like a movie that was constantly trying to find its groove.
Staring justin timberlake, amy adams, clint eastwood and matthew lillard. Find out where trouble with the curve is streaming, if trouble with the curve is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. I originally envisioned trouble with the curve as a romantic comedy about two scouts who were going after the same player. Set 10 years after the film trilogy, three new characters continue the chase for easy money in stockholms changed underworld and. Unfortunately, trouble with the curve will not even get a lookin at the academy awards. The first, about boxing, was million dollar baby 2004. Nearly 20 years have passed since clint eastwood the actor has been directed by anyone other than clint eastwood the filmmaker, so when you see the name robert lorenz listed as the director of trouble with the curve, theres hope that the man with no name might try to alter his old habits, or at least focus his acting skills in a way that might surprise us or himself. One of the big problems with the film, for those who pay attention to such things, is that it gets the baseball part of the movie wrong, in order to. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the makers of trouble with the curve, concluding that the script of the clint eastwood baseball movie was not a copy of an unproduced baseball. In spite of a few missteps and mostly familiar story beats, trouble with the curve is a solid film offering for baseball fans and movie lovers alike. The main themes here are family, friends, and loyalty. That man, pete silver played by matthew lillard is determined to fire gus even though he is completely unaware of guss failing eyesight. Watch the film moneyball and answer the questions in the film study worksheet for a work of historical fiction. Trouble with the curve has just the right mix of baseball knowledge, romance, and comedy.
With clint eastwood, amy adams, john goodman, justin timberlake. Baseball film trouble with the curve took a big swing and a miss at the box office this weekend. Trouble with the curve, a sports film with heart aced. Trouble with the curve official trailer hd youtube. Trouble with the curve is one of those easygoing oldtime movies that they say.
An enjoyable life drama trouble with the curve opens in theaters nationwide with a stellar cast playing likeable characters in this modern day sports story. Justin timberlake has landed a starring role in trouble with the curve, the robert lorenzdirected warner bros film that will star clint eastwood and amy adams. Adams and eastwood star in the new film, trouble with the curve, and eastwood directed the film. There were aspects of the film that were totally predictable, but i looked forward to. Trouble with the curve, with clint eastwood and amy adams the. Trouble with the curve script theft lawsuit dismissed. Its a road movie, a love story and a thriller, set in sydneys nightclub scene and the stunning landscape of australias outback. We adore amy so i was very concerned about the casting of justin timberlake. But in the writing, it eventually became more of a fatherdaughter story. He also directed and produced the movie invictus 2009, about the 1995 rugby world cup.
That curve, by the way, is the least of this films troubles admittedly, i was put off by lorenzs outing beginning with its very first scene, which found eastwoods aged baseball scout and. As a baseball lover, i was thoroughly impressed with the amount of baseball history that was incorporated into the story line. In trouble with the curve, clint eastwood strikes out. Clint eastwood has returned to his acting roots in trouble with the curve, a new baseball film costarring amy adams and jt. Clint eastwood, amy adams, justin timberlake trouble with. Trouble with the curve 2012 friday, september 21, 2012 1 comment. Its about living between different worlds and finding out who you are. To silver, a man who relies on statistics and equations over experience and firsthand observation, gus is a relic of a time gone by. Trouble with the curve official trailer an ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his. Like most of the great baseball movies the sport is only a subtext. Trouble with the curve is one of those classic hollywood movies that will make you laugh, cry and warm your heart. Justin timberlake lands trouble with the curve deadline. When a movie centers itself on two major performances, be it a romance, a buddy movie or a parentchild film, much hoopla is made over the chemistry shared between them.