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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★ 14

  this is the last major clint film i haven't seen until now -- 55 films he starred in, 40 films he directed himself, i've seen them all. weird feeling. not closing a book per say, but you can see the end's only a few pages away. trouble with the curve is quintessentially lame, endlessly cliche, an unremarkable hollywood sports melodrama back when they still made these outside of oscar season -- yet something else is here. call it what you will, but having spent the majority of my life with clint, watching his movies, re-watching them, talking about them, attaining the language to properly analyze them, being taught by them; there's a qualitative difference here along with the quantity.

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  Review by cathy ★★ 1

  while amy adams was filming this movie a man told her that he admired her skills and impact on the industry. she told him to work hard and follow his dreams if he wanted to be like her. that man was clint eastwood

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★ 20

  “Trouble with the Curve” capitalises on the charisma of America’s favorite past time to achieve the easy grace of peak comfort fair. 

  Baseball is best in the background. As someone whose understanding of the sport essentially comes through watching “The Sandlot” and “Angels in the Outfield” too much as a kid; I’ve still attended my share of actual baseball games. Why? 

  Their atmosphere of sparkling predictability. 

  The ending is not ordained for a matchup, but the atmosphere is always the same. The smell of brats and beer, the slap of the plastic seats, and then - dark comes, the lights turn on - and, no place ever felt so right. 

  This is same sensation of “Trouble with the Curve.” Directed…

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  Review by chavel ★★★ 4

  Pop and daughter reconciliation over baseball and little adventures on the road! Clint Eastwood (“Gran Torino”) is in trademark grumpy old man mode and Amy Adams (“The Fighter”) is the lawyer daughter who cuts out of work to hit the road with Pop, chugging with the boys and yelping out ancient MLB statistics. Eastwood is Gus, a rapidly aging Atlanta Braves baseball scout with bad eyes and a latent distrust of the internet. He is scouting a cocksure kid named Bo Gentry, a raucous prospect that is going to have inevitable PR problems if he goes to the Majors, but he certainly hits game-winning home runs. What will Gus find right with the kid, and what will he find wrong?…

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  Review by Headhunter666 ★★★★ 17

  Sportfilme ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️ Community Weekend

  
  "Das ist Feng-Schmuddel. Kennst du denn gar nichts!"

  Gus Lobel ist Talentscout und tingelt durch die Staaten um vielversprechende Baseball-Talente für seinen Arbeitgeber zu finden.
  Das macht Gus Lobel schon sein ganzes Leben lang und kann aus einem reichhaltigen Fundus an Erfahrung zurückgreifen.
  Gus Lobel allerdings wird auch alt und als wäre das noch nicht genug, verlässt ihn zunehmends das Augenlicht.
  Töchterchen Mickey rafft sich auf, stellt mal kurz ihren Karriereanspruch hintenan und begleitet ihn auf einer Reise durch North Carolina um den nächsten Baseball-Star zu pitchen.
  Und während dieser Reise wird so manch langer Konflikt und die Selbstreflektierung auf die Probe gestellt...

  Ach, Menno ich mag den Film!
  Hab den jetzt echt schon mehrmals gesehen,…

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  Review by Haiduc ★★

  Trouble with the script

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  Review by feedingbrett ★★

  Review In A Nutshell:

  Trouble with the Curve starts off strongly with identifiable characters and a tone that brings sentiment and warmth. Clint Eastwood plays a baseball scout, named Gus, for the Atlanta Braves with three months left in his contract; his age shows his eyesight in deterioration but his stubborn attitude leaves him in denial of his condition. Gus is also a traditionalist; he believes that baseball scouting is at its best when done through close observation during multiple matches. His organisation is heading in a new direction; one that relies on statistics calculated through a computer. This conflict of approach frustrates him, but he is determined to make the most left of his contract and prove to his…

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  Review by Joe ★★★½

  Total schmaltz but effectively executed with a great cast. The reactionary Rio Bravo to Moneyball's High Noon.

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  Review by Michael501 📺 ★★★½

  Clint Eastwood A Retrospective - Week 54
  
  A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout, by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last.

  Trouble with the Curve is a about an aged baseball scout (Eastwood) who relies on his eyes, senses, and gut feelings to scout the top prospects. The trouble is, his eyes are failing and his job is on the line. As such, Gus's friend Pete (John Goodman) is concerned about him and gives a call to Mickey (Amy Adams), Gus's daughter. Predictably, the father-daughter duo do not share a strong relationship with each, and that is tested on a road trip together to scout the…

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  Review by Dan ★★½

  amy lou adams went and invented baseball... her mind...

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  Review by nat 🤍🌙 ★★★½ 2

  i couldn't care less about baseball but i love amy adams

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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★½

  Although I watch a lot of films, I tend not to watch the same film more than once in a year, but on my day off and while waiting patiently for the next World Cup game to start, this was better than most of the other films on Sky Movies.
  This film appeared to less than flattering reviews back in 2012. I do understand those opinions from others, but I think if you're a Baseball fan and can engage yourself with the story, then there's a lot on offer here. Clint Eastwood may have gotten top billing, but Amy Adams's star continues to rise like a phoenix from the fire and she's yet again the best thing in Robert Lorenz's…