Clint Eastwood is his normal gravely self. Amy Adams the good daughter. Justin Timberlake the good looking young upstart. Plus baseball. Can't really get any better. Eastwood is an aging talent scout for the Atlanta Braves who happens to be going blind. He is also starting to do battle with saber-metrics whose proponents (in this film at least) are pushing actual scouts out the door in favor of stats. Adams, having grown up her fathers daughter, knows more about baseball than anyone around apparently and when she takes leave from her high powered lawyer job to spend some time with dad, demonstrates this expertise. In spite of the severely contrived attempt at romantic tension the film works pretty well and a standard coming of age/coming home sort of story. Nothing surprising here, or really astounding. But Adams and Eastwood are always good and any film that John Goodman shows up in is a good day in my book.
3 stars (out of 5)
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