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The Rookie
The film follows the story of a coach who discovers that there is still time to realize those dreams. The coach performs the main league after approving the case for the high school team that will enter the playoffs
1 November 1976, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA
18 December 1955, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
25 December 1962, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
25 December 1939, Midwest City, Oklahoma, USA
15 January 1960, Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA
15 September 1945, USA
8 October 1993, Austin, Texas, USA
19 January 1942, Emporia, Virginia, USA
June 19, 1969 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA
May 12, 2014
This entry in the genre is a true story that is, sadly, hampered by some signposted plot developments and undernourished characters.
January 22, 2013
Slow moving, even pedestrian at times, yet this Dennis Quaid vehicle strikes a lot of genuinely heartwarming moments along the way.
March 12, 2013
Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be.
May 12, 2014
Refreshing and compelling.
July 14, 2011
Earnest, uplifting baseball melodrama
May 12, 2014
Morris ultimately lasted two partial seasons in the majors, and the film's rendering of his minor-league struggle is so enjoyable you want to see more of that and less of the everyday life preceding it.
March 12, 2013
The Rookie is shot through with star-spangled sentiment, but its light touch and "true story" origins combine to make it feelgood fun even for schmaltz-phobic Brits.
February 23, 2012
Deftly constructed to stoke the baseball-phenom fantasies of coulda-shoulda-woulda middle-aged guys and fields-of-dreaming young diamond studs.
May 12, 2014
Though Hancock traffics in a lot of bogus small-town sentiment, The Rookie exhibits a refreshingly honest understanding of baseball as a job, with long road trips away from home and a workmanlike routine.
May 12, 2014
At two-plus hours, The Rookie is a good 20 minutes too long, but for father-son teams waiting eagerly for the umpire's "Play ball!", it's an uplifting season opener.
March 12, 2013
It's Quaid and his fellow actors, Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox, who lift the film out of its intermittent doldrums, and together they deliver that rare thing: a nuanced sports movie.