Trouble with the Curve


Trouble with the Curve is a 2012 sportsdrama film directed by Robert Lorenz and starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Matthew Lillard, and John Goodman. The film revolves around an aging baseball scout whose daughter joins him on a scouting trip. Filming began in March 2012, and the movie was released on September 21, 2012.

An aging Atlanta Braves baseball scout, Gus Lobel Eastwood, is given one last assignment to prove his value to the organization, who views him as unable to adapt to changes within the game. His boss and friend Pete Goodman does not want to see him let go, but he must contend with an ambitious junior executive, Philip Lillard, who is trying to get a promotion to the teams general manager post and wants Gus fired as an obstacle to his own baseball philosophy and methods.Pete suspects Gus is hiding problems with his health, so against Guss wishes, Pete contacts Guss daughter Mickey Adams, a workaholic lawyer pursuing a partnership at her firm, to join her father on a scouting trip to North Carolina. Gus is to review a top prospect named Bo Gentry, a brash amateur whose statistics make him a likely top draft pick. ........

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