If you had thought that Gran Torino was Clint Eastwood’s last time in front of the camera, think again. He has returned – and this time in a film that he isn’t directing, his first time in front of the camera for a director other than himself since 1993′s In the Line of Fire. In this case, it happens to be for the directorial debut of Robert Lorenz, one of Eastwood’s producers and first assistant directors over the past fifteen or so years.
Trouble with the Curve looks more light-hearted than most Eastwood-starring movies. He stars as a retiring baseball scout who is reconnecting with his daughter, played by Amy Adams. If Eastwood isn’t enough to get your seat in the butt (and yes, even though he’s celebrity-endorsed that clown Mitt Romney, I’ll still see anything the dude does), the cast is rounded out with Justin Timberlake (come on… admit you like him nowadays), John Goodman, Robert Patrick, Matthew Lillard, and Clint’s son Scott Eastwood.
The film will be released in the US on September 21, 2012 and expand to other markets in the following weeks.
What do you think of the trailer? Wishing Clint would have hung up his hat or are you excited to see him grumble and mumble his way through another film?
First 20 seconds or so and I was sold. Old-timer “Moneyball”? – sounds good to me. But then they bought it back with lameness of this trailer.
First off the music makes me want to slit my wrists and the “light” melodrama looks as tired as it gets. The “oh you’re so crazy for jumping into a lake right now” was the last straw.
This movie looks horrible.
Oh, yes… it looks awful.
“You weren’t a good dad, but I loved you anyway!”
“Damn it, I tried! You don’t know what you think you know that I know.”
*flashback to something traumatic explaining why he wasn’t a good father*
“You were a good dad, I just didn’t see it.”
*Justin Timberlake smiles*
“Because I feel this dysfunctional sense of responsibility to make sure that you’re okay.”
I’m sorry, but that has to be one of the most awkward lines I’ve ever heard. Not even Amy Adams can save that one.
Heh. I actually talk like that. So it doesn’t ring tooo false for me.
You need help then.
Finally. Somebody says it.
It’s a movie about baseball. It can’t be as bad as ‘Summer Catch’. I’ll see it.
See that’s what I thought. But from what I get about this trailer it isn’t much about baseball. It starts that way to trick you into thinking this would be a cross between Moneyball and The Rookie… then it turns into melodramatic (the bad kind) horse shit the instant that music starts up.
Cheese factor: absolute 10. I guess as a baseball fan, I’m undyingly optimistic that every baseball movie will end up being great like ‘Major League’ or ‘Field of Dreams.
I hold to my rule of seeing anything with Amy Adams. This changes nothing.
But if you’ve ever listened to Adam Carolla’s Podcast where they do “Made Up Movie” based on a fictional title given by the listeners. This is one of those movies.