The movie tells the true story of a coach who discovers that it's never too late for dreams to come true. He makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.
18 December 1955, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
26 November 1986, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 January 1970, Burbank, California, USA
30 June 1979, New York City, New York, USA
July 21, 1983 in Dallas, Texas, USA
20 February 1978, Montebello, California, USA
18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
1970, Durango, Mexico
19 January 1957, Victoria, Texas, USA
13 July 1988, Arlington, Texas, USA
9 January 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 12, 2014
Refreshing and compelling.
May 12, 2014
Though Hancock traffics in a lot of bogus small-town sentiment, The Rookie exhibits a refreshingly honest understanding of baseball as a job, with long road trips away from home and a workmanlike routine.
March 12, 2013
It's Quaid and his fellow actors, Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox, who lift the film out of its intermittent doldrums, and together they deliver that rare thing: a nuanced sports movie.
May 12, 2014
At two-plus hours, The Rookie is a good 20 minutes too long, but for father-son teams waiting eagerly for the umpire's "Play ball!", it's an uplifting season opener.
March 12, 2013
Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be.
January 22, 2013
Slow moving, even pedestrian at times, yet this Dennis Quaid vehicle strikes a lot of genuinely heartwarming moments along the way.
July 14, 2011
Earnest, uplifting baseball melodrama
March 12, 2013
The Rookie is shot through with star-spangled sentiment, but its light touch and "true story" origins combine to make it feelgood fun even for schmaltz-phobic Brits.
May 12, 2014
This entry in the genre is a true story that is, sadly, hampered by some signposted plot developments and undernourished characters.
May 12, 2014
Morris ultimately lasted two partial seasons in the majors, and the film's rendering of his minor-league struggle is so enjoyable you want to see more of that and less of the everyday life preceding it.
February 23, 2012
Deftly constructed to stoke the baseball-phenom fantasies of coulda-shoulda-woulda middle-aged guys and fields-of-dreaming young diamond studs.
