I saw American Sniper last night, and hated it slightly less than I expected to. Like most Clint Eastwood movies – and I like Clint Eastwood movies for the most part – it's a simple, well-lit little fairy tale with the nutritional value of a fortune cookie that serves up a neatly-arranged helping of cheers and tears for target audiences, and panics at the thought of embracing more than one or two ideas at any time.
It's usually silly to get upset about the self-righteous way Hollywood moviemakers routinely turn serious subjects into baby food.
It's usually silly to get upset about the self-righteous way Hollywood moviemakers routinely turn serious subjects into baby food.
- 1/21/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Trouble with the Curve
Directed by: Robert Lorenz
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Matthew Lillard, John Goodman, Joe Massingill
Running Time: 1 hr 51 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Plot: An aging baseball scout (Eastwood) losing his vision receives scouting help from his daughter (Adams). He receives some competition from a rival scout (Timberlake) also interested in the same prospective player (Massingill).
Who’S It For? If you like watching Clint Eastwood in movies, then yes, he’s certainly in Trouble with the Curve; if you like watching him do great work, go watch Gran Torino again instead. And though it might sound odd, it’s important you know your baseball. If you don’t, Curve is going to offer no explanation.
Expectations: Eastwood’s history of letting his friends direct him has been spotty (Any Which Way You Can, not withstanding). What kind of magic would first-time director,...
Directed by: Robert Lorenz
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Matthew Lillard, John Goodman, Joe Massingill
Running Time: 1 hr 51 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Plot: An aging baseball scout (Eastwood) losing his vision receives scouting help from his daughter (Adams). He receives some competition from a rival scout (Timberlake) also interested in the same prospective player (Massingill).
Who’S It For? If you like watching Clint Eastwood in movies, then yes, he’s certainly in Trouble with the Curve; if you like watching him do great work, go watch Gran Torino again instead. And though it might sound odd, it’s important you know your baseball. If you don’t, Curve is going to offer no explanation.
Expectations: Eastwood’s history of letting his friends direct him has been spotty (Any Which Way You Can, not withstanding). What kind of magic would first-time director,...
- 9/21/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
How many actors could get away with a scene where they sing .You are my Sunshine. to their wife.s grave without audible audience eye-rolling? Not many, but the hoarse-voiced, glaring, grouchy old man Clint Eastwood plays in Trouble With The Curve is a great movie character in one of the best films I.ve seen this year and it’s a typically vigorous and entertaining performance from the 82-year old actor (and the first he.s starred as an actor in somebody else.s film since In The Line Of Fire directed by Wolfgang Petersen, in 1993). Trouble With The Curve is a baseball story, an old-fashioned road movie, and a father-daughter melodrama. It.s flawed and predictable but still great family entertainment filled with emotion, humor, and that terrific career-capping performance from Clint.
Eastwood plays Gus Lobel, a talent scout with the Atlanta Braves three months out from his final contract.
Eastwood plays Gus Lobel, a talent scout with the Atlanta Braves three months out from his final contract.
- 9/21/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We've been anxiously awaiting Clint Eastwood's next film "The Trouble with the Curve" for a while now. Not only is Eastwood returning from his three-year retirement to act in a movie directed by someone else—in this case, longtime producing partner Robert Lorenz in his feature film debut—but he's also teaming up with the likes of Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman.
Entertainment Weekly has our first look at the film, which is due out in theaters on September 28. The two stills the outlet premiered show Eastwood getting close with his onscreen daughter (played by Adams) as well as having some male bonding time with Timberlake's character.
"The Trouble with the Curve" tells the story of an aging Atlanta Braves scout with increasingly poor eyesight who goes on a road trip with his adult daughter to investigate "green power hitter" Bo Gentry (played by newcomer Joe Massingill...
Entertainment Weekly has our first look at the film, which is due out in theaters on September 28. The two stills the outlet premiered show Eastwood getting close with his onscreen daughter (played by Adams) as well as having some male bonding time with Timberlake's character.
"The Trouble with the Curve" tells the story of an aging Atlanta Braves scout with increasingly poor eyesight who goes on a road trip with his adult daughter to investigate "green power hitter" Bo Gentry (played by newcomer Joe Massingill...
- 7/27/2012
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Movies Blog
Clint Eastwood is never out until he says he’s out.
Following 1992′s Unforgiven, the actor and filmmaker ended his storied Western career, and that was years after closing the book on Dirty Harry.
When he made 2008′s Gran Torino, and hinted he might be done acting altogether, and seeing as he was 78 years old then, it seemed very likely. He’d already quit performing for every filmmaker except for one — himself.
But when his longtime cinematic sidekick Robert Lorenz took the helm of the family baseball drama Trouble With the Curve (in theaters Sept. 28), the iconic actor was persuaded...
Following 1992′s Unforgiven, the actor and filmmaker ended his storied Western career, and that was years after closing the book on Dirty Harry.
When he made 2008′s Gran Torino, and hinted he might be done acting altogether, and seeing as he was 78 years old then, it seemed very likely. He’d already quit performing for every filmmaker except for one — himself.
But when his longtime cinematic sidekick Robert Lorenz took the helm of the family baseball drama Trouble With the Curve (in theaters Sept. 28), the iconic actor was persuaded...
- 7/27/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
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