Fresh
For all its occasional tin ear, Dr Phil dialogue, its contrivances and shortcuts, this remains a fundamentally sound and solid entertainment with a deep-rooted conviction that how we treat each other matters.
Tom Charity, CNN.com
Trouble with the Curve
Whatever Life Throws at You.
2012 · 1h 51m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Robert Lorenz
Overview
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
51%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Eastwood and Adams do the best they can with the cornball sentimentality and cheesy dialogue, but first-time director Robert Lorenz merely photographs the on- and off-field action. Give it a pass.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Rotten
Lorenz ... lays in everything methodically, fully, but without much invention or energy; you can imagine each plot development ten minutes before it arrives.
David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh
Eastwood, in his 80s, looks a lot trimmer than some of the performers in this film half his age. He may be the only octogenarian actor who has to play older than his age to be convincing.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
Nobody would pay much attention to this plodding but good-hearted film if not for its star, Clint Eastwood, although he's just dialing in the go-to Cantankerous Old Man mode on which he has relied for a decade or so.
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
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