Plot
A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 6.9/10 (15,283 voted)
Critic's Score: 72/100
Director:
John Lee Hancock
Stars: Dennis Quaid, J.D. Evermore, Rachel Griffiths
Storyline Jim Morris is a Texas high school chemistry teacher and coach of the school's baseball team. He's always loved baseball and as a way of motivating his players, he agrees to go to a professional try-out if they win the championship. He once had aspirations to be a professional baseball player but an injury brought that to an end. Sure enough, the 39 year-old father of three finds himself at a camp for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and he somehow seems to have regained his pitching arm, easily throwing a 98 mph fastball. Signed to a contract, he toils in the minor leagues while his supportive wife stays home raising their children. He soon finds himself called up to the big club and pitching for Tampa which is in Texas playing the Rangers. Based on a true story.
Cast: Dennis Quaid
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Jimmy Morris
Rachel Griffiths
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Lorri Morris
Jay Hernandez
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Joaquin 'Wack' Campos
Beth Grant
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Olline
Angus T. Jones
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Hunter Morris
Brian Cox
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Jim Morris Sr.
Rick Gonzalez
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Rudy Bonilla
Chad Lindberg
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Joe David West
Angelo Spizzirri
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Joel De La Garza
Royce D. Applegate
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Henry
Russell Richardson
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Brooks
Raynor Scheine
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Frank
David Blackwell
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Cal
Blue Deckert
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Baseball Scout Dave Patterson
Danny Kamin
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Durham Manager Mac
(as Daniel Kamin)
Taglines:
It's never too late to believe in your dreams.
Filming Locations: Austin Studios - 1901 E. 51st Street, Austin, Texas, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $20,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $16,021,684
(USA)
(31 March 2002)
(2511 Screens)
Gross: $80,693,537
(Worldwide)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia: Trevor Morgan, who plays Young Jimmy, had to learn how to pitch left-handed.
Goofs:
Anachronisms:
Several of the players seen in the Rangers game (including the Rangers' Alex Rodriguez and the Devil Rays' Tanyon Sturtze) were not with their respective teams when Morris made his major league debut on September 18, 1999.
Quotes: Durham Manager Mac:
Jimmy, I just got off the phone with the big club. They're calling up Brooks. Jimmy:
That's great. He won't be back. Durham Manager Mac:
He respects you, and I think you ought to be the one to tell him. Being that you're going, too...
User Review
They Did This Sports Movie Right
Rating: 10/10
I love it when they actually do a sports story well. So many in the
past have been so hokey it was embarrassing to watch. Not this one.
It's just a genuinely nice movie, an old-fashioned type of story - and
based on a real-life guy to did exactly what Dennis Quaid did in this
film. He plays a high school coach who is talked into trying out, late
in life athletically-speaking, to become a pitcher in professional
baseball. Eventually, he reaches his goal of making it to the Major
Leagues, even if it was a very brief stint.
All the characters in here are nice people, the kind you root for, from
Quaid to the players on his high school team, to his little boy (Angus
T. Jones, now somewhat of a star on television.)
Quaid is believable in playing Jim Morris because, unlike actors in the
past in sports films, he knows how to throw a baseball. He looks like a
pitcher, a guy who could fire it 90-plus miles per hour. And, most of
this film is true, as testified by the real-life pitcher in one the
documentaries on the DVD.
So, if you're looking for a nice, inspirational true life sports film,
you can't wrong with this one.
Plot
Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal (Raul Julia.)
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 5.6/10 (11,031 voted)
Director:
Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia
Storyline Nick Pulovski is a cop, who is presently assigned to the auto theft division and who for the most part of his career has not done anything worthwhile. But when he discovers that a man named Strom is the brains behind a major car theft and chop shop ring, he sees this as his opportunity to do something. After his partner is killed, the case is then transfered to homicide, so he is taken off the case. And he is assigned a new partner, David Ackerman. a cop who has just recently been promoted to detective. But Pulovski feeling as if Strom is his decides to continue pursuing him but Ackerman who tries to play by the rules is not sure what to do, and he is also a little afraid cause of a childhood incident.
Writers: Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel
Cast: Clint Eastwood
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Nick Pulovski
Charlie Sheen
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David Ackerman
Raul Julia
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Strom
Sonia Braga
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Liesl
Tom Skerritt
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Eugene Ackerman
Lara Flynn Boyle
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Sarah
Pepe Serna
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Lt. Raymond Garcia
Marco Rodríguez
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Loco Martinez
Pete Randall
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Cruz
Donna Mitchell
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Laura Ackerman
Xander Berkeley
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Ken Blackwell
Tony Plana
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Morales
David Sherrill
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Max
Hal Williams
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Powell
Lloyd Nelson
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Freeway Motorist
Release Date: 7 December 1990
Filming Locations: East Los Angeles, California, USA
Gross: $21,633,874
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The movie was to be directed by Craig R. Baxley starring Matthew Modine and Gene Hackman in 1988 but the production was stopped by the Screen Actors Guild strike.
Goofs:
Continuity:
When Strom is going up the conveyor belt to the baggage carousel it is moving, but when he gets to the top it is stationary. The belt should be running since the carousel is running.
Quotes: Nick Pulovski:
[to Strom]
There's gotta be a hundred reasons why I don't blow you away. Right now I can't think of one.
User Review
"Got a light?"
Rating:
I know, I know. "The Rookie" is a critically lambasted action film, and from
what I've read from the other IMDb users, it's considered one of the worst
films since "Ishtar"! But, I'll cut "The Rookie" some slack, because I
happen to enjoy this flick pretty much. Yeah, the dialogue is a bit crappy,
especially by Pepe Serna's lines; he jitters while he talks most of the
length of time of the movie!
Well anyway, I thought it is a pretty enjoyable cop drama, due to the funny
chemistry between Eastwood and Sheen, who do great Mel Gibson/Danny Glover
impressions. The action is intense, and the suspense is quite strong, too.
"The Rookie" delivers the goods for fans of the action genre, but for those
who want a more logical movie, avoid "The Rookie".
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