This predictable story with Amy Adams as a career woman and Clint Eastwood as her cranky baseball scout dad provided Jack and me with some entertainment after my team completely fell apart in the post-season. A little syrupy in the third act, it still had some good bits (nice Georgia locations, some standing in for North Carolina), leading us to agree more with rottentomatoes' audiences at 69% than its critics at 59, despite our distaste for Eastwood and his empty chair. We certainly appreciated the symmetry of another October baseball movie (last year it was Moneyball).
Written, in his debut, by Randy Brown, and directed, in another debut, by Robert Lorenz (a high level executive at Eastwood's Malpaso Productions), this will win no awards, but could be fun for die-hard baseball fans.
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