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May 16, 2014 · A true-life baseball tale about a sports agent who discovers two Indian pitchers and trains them for the MLB. The review criticizes the main character's lack of empathy and the film's predictable plot, but praises the actors and the music.
- Jerry Maguire
The man she follows, and loves, is Jerry Maguire (), a...
- Jerry Maguire
Apr 30, 2014 · A Disney sports movie about a sports agent who tries to turn Indian cricket bowlers into MLB pitchers. The film is smart, entertaining and realistic, with Jon Hamm, Alan Arkin and Suraj Sharma leading the cast.
May 16, 2014 · In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm) plans to find baseball's next star pitcher. He heads to India to find a cricket player whom he can nurture...
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- Craig Gillespie
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- Jon Hamm
May 16, 2014 · Million Dollar Arm features a strong cast, an accomplished screenwriter, and a quality director - who ultimately deliver a solid but unremarkable sports drama. Viewers will be affected by certain characters and scenes more than others but the film never outright fails in its intentions.
- Ben Kendrick
- Down the middle.
- Verdict
By Matt Patches
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 6:53 pm
Posted: May 13, 2014 9:59 pm
Million Dollar Arm, Disney's latest underdog sports tale, is a conflict of morals and emotions. There's no denying the feel good vibes of a well-crafted athletic drama — fast ball exhilaration amplified by everyman star Jon Hamm. But the story of two Indian strong arms shipped from Mumbai to Major League Baseball training camp veers dangerously close to the all-too-common savior narrative.
Even while delicately approaching the true story of sports agent J. B. Bernstein (Hamm) and the pitchers, Rinku Singh (Life of Pi's Suraj Sharma) and Dinesh Patel (Madhur Mittal), he plucked from obscurity, writer Tom McCarthy (Win Win, The Station Agent) and director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) can't spin their patchwork family yarn without implications that the two transplants are somehow “rescued” from their home. It's a point-of-view problem; Million Dollar Arm is the story of J.B.'s crusade, a star vehicle for Hamm, that owes more time to its Indian stars. The movie throws every pitch straight down the middle when it's in desperate need of sliders, screwballs, and changeups.
After losing out on a major football client to a competing mega-agency, J.B. is on the brink of bankruptcy. But aggressive channel surfing between Indian cricket and Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” (seriously) provokes a saving grace revelation: Perhaps, with the training, a cricket bowler could become an all-star MLB pitcher. With investments from the baseball organizations and his right hand man, Aash (Aasif Mandvi), managing operations back home, J.B. sets of to India to roll out the “Million Dollar Arm” competition.
Jon Hamm settles for a base hit with a Disney-fied sports movie that mixes Western and Eastern flavors without understanding what makes either side unique.
- Matt Patches
May 16, 2014 · Million Dollar Arm: Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Jon Hamm, Pitobash, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal. A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
May 9, 2014 · Movie Review: Million Dollar Arm is all about faith and ambitions. Million Dollar Arm is a biographical sports drama about a sports agent J.B. Bernstein who discovered two baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel in a reality show competition. Saurabh Dwivedi's rating: Listen to Story. Advertisement. Million Dollar Arm. Saurabh Dwivedi.
