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.
Million Dollar Arm is cute, cloying, simplistic, borderline offensive ... and thoroughly effective.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
16 May 2014
fresh:
Million Dollar Arm, based on true events, did a fairly good job of keeping me engaged even though I knew exactly where it was going every step of the way.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 May 2014
fresh:
JB is not the wisest of men and Million Dollar Arm makes no bones about him being a character in need of an upward arc. Even so, the movie never sacrifices the other characters as mere handmaidens to his growth.
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
16 May 2014
rotten:
A completely by-the-numbers affair.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
16 May 2014
rotten:
Sappy, saccharine, and predictable to the point where it's almost painful.