2014 · drama · sports
Million Dollar Arm
Directed by Craig Gillespie2h 4m2014
In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.
Our read: Million Dollar Arm (2014) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded drama · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle drama / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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