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Summary: Fantastic Movie
Review: My husband and I truly enjoyed this movie. It was real life, the struggles and the triumphs and it wasn't manufactured--it was about a real person. Bravo Disney--please make more movies like this one!
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Summary: Finally, a clean quality movie the whole family can enjoy!
Review: I wasn't sure what to expect from a G rated movie and almost opted out of seeing it because of that. I'm certainly glad I decided to view it anyway. This is a great movie. The story is good, the acting fantastic, as usual for Dennis Quaid and just a clean family film. I was very impressed with the plot and how drawn into the film I was and certainly didn't miss the smuck and language that usually accompanies films of this type. Another great one from Dreamworks Productions.
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Summary: I can't believe it's Disney.
Review: I don't have much admiration of Disney, and I'm not a baseball fan. Starting with that disadvantage, this movie had a lot of catching up to do. The advertisements and previews pretty much tell the whole story... old guy takes a run at the major leagues. How much of a movie can you make out of that slim outline?In truth, this movie is so well acted, so carefully written and so deftly directed that it is a pure pleasure for even a chronically cynical adult. I could quibble about the blatant product placement (which the movie pokes fun at in one place... watch for it!) and the country music (probably necessary for a movie about Texas) but I still loved The Rookie. No getting around it... this movie works like a fine Swiss watch. Highly recommended for all ages. The Rookie is one of the better movies of the year so far.
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Summary: The Rookie
Review: This movie had everything. It is the first movie I've seen in a long time that there were no swear words, no sex scenes, no violence. It was a wholesome movie, good for all ages. It was based on a true story which made it all that much better. Here's a great guy, who teaching great kids, not foul mouthed like I hear so much of coming out of the mouths of kids everywhere, in the malls, on the streets, in the movie theatres.
This teacher loves his wife, his kids and baseball, and in that order. And the director or whoever hire the lead knew what he was doing. We just don't see enough of Dennis Quaid. He is the very best actor on the scene today. You guys out there in Movieland. Let's see more movies like this and much,much more of Dennis Quaid.
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Summary: The Rookie
Review: The best movie I have seen in years. It's not just another sports movie. This one transcends multiple levels to make it an outstanding, must-see movie. The direction is superb with surprising yet appropriate scoring. Believability is where most sports-topic movies fail. Not this one. The casting and acting make each character so realistic that you feel every emotion.
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Summary: It is about time!
Review: It is about time that we have a great family movie for children and grown-ups to equally enjoy that is rated G with no violence or foul language! I highly reccommend this movie for you and your family! You will enjoy it immensly!
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Summary: The Rookie
Review: Amazing that Hollywood can make a good movie with no sex, violence and/or bad language. Very well done movie but could have been 15 to 20 minutes shorter. Dennis Quaid is remarkable. A must see for the whole family. A movie with a message!
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Summary: A "pitched happily ever after" Disney offering
Review: THE ROOKIE asks the rhetorical question "What red-blooded American boy doesn't dream of pitching in the World Series?" Well, I may have entertained that fantasy for a fleeting moment. Then, having demonstrated to date no athletic prowess whatsoever, I retrenched behind sissy stuff like books and stamp collecting. THE ROOKIE, ostensibly derived from a true story, brings to the Big Screen the tale of Jim Morris. Young Jim was obsessed with pitching, yet, because of paternal indifference and arm injuries, ended up as a mid-thirties something high school teacher in a West Texas town. Actor Dennis Quaid does what he does best, i.e. play an eminently likable and audience-sympathetic character, in this case Morris. Besides being the high school chemistry teacher, Morris also coaches the school's lackluster baseball team - always in the shadow of Football (spoken reverentially with a capital "F" in Texas). To get his boys motivated, Jim accepts a bargain they propose. He'll attend a professional league tryout session if they win the district finals. Well, the traditional success of such movie themes as "underdog team does good" and "over-the-hill underachiever makes a comeback" is an indication of how this film plays from the point where Jim discovers that he can still throw a 98 mph fast ball. My biggest objection to the film is more of a nagging suspicion that the warm and fuzzy tidiness of this Disney production was perhaps not reflected in the reality on which it is based. ("Based", in the Hollywood make-believe sense, being the operative term here.) Certainly, I doubt Jim's real-life wife Lorri, played here by Rachel Griffiths, was as amenable to her husband's middle-age fantasy as depicted, especially when the family income plummeted. And Brian Cox in the role of Jim's father was particularly wooden. However, in the end, I enjoyed THE ROOKIE more than a little simply because I like Dennis Quaid and still have some residual affection for the National Pastime. My tastes perhaps run to lowbrow, but I'll not apologize.
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Summary: Nice for all who have a Dream.
Review: This was a wonderful movie. It's about a man named Jimmy Morris who had a dream of playing pro-baseball. His father is in the army and they are constantly moving. He moves to TExas where there is no baseball, after a while, when he grows up he is a baseball coach in a highschool.
He is now married and has children. His son his almost like a member of the team even thought he is only around 7, 8, or 9. He has his own uniform and is always at practices and the games. He also has a daughter around the son's age and another son around the age of 1.
One of the team members discovers how good Jim pitches, he then does it at practice and he makes a deal with the team that if they start winning and win the highest game or something like that, that he has to try out for the major leagues.
They win and he has to go and try out.......... The rest I won't say, See the movie to find out what happens :). It's a great movie for anyone who ever had a dream that they wanted to accomplish. :) This Movie Was Based on A True Story!
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Summary: I didn't go to "The Rookie" with high expectations. After
Review: all we know what is going to happen. I was pleasently surprised. All the cliches are pulled out & the stock characters are there but they don't bludgeon you to death with them. Even the smart [aleck] kid is muted & pleasant. Dennis Quaid is very good in the title role. He prepared well & I could actually believe he could pitch a ball 98 mph. Nobody gets killed or laid & the language is ok for kids. It will go to tape quickly & take its place as one of the better baseball movies like "Bull Durham" & "Major Leagues" only gentler.
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