The story: Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid), a Texas southpaw, was a baseball fan from the time he was three. As a boy, young Jimmy (Trevor Morgan) he had dreams of Major-League glory, but it wasn’t meant to be: Recurring shoulder pain and a string of surgeries ended his career in the...
Training Day, a gripping and widely celebrated thriller, features the intense journey of a rookie cop, portrayed by Ethan Hawke, as he navigates the morally ambiguous world of law enforcement under the guidance of a seasoned detective, played by Denzel Washington. The film's captivating plot an...
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The Rookie Inciting Event:After baseball practice with his high school team one day, Coach Jimmy Morris is talked into pitching to his catcher. He is reluctant at first (refusing the Call to Adventure), saying he’s “promised too many doctors.” But he eventually agrees and stuns the catch...
The Rookie: Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Beth Grant. A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.
In the wake of an NBA lockout, sports agent Ray Burke (Andrè Holland) is at risk of losing his entire career. Hoping to turn things around, the agent has less than 72 hours to pitch a controversial business plan to one of his rookie players, a business venture that will have major ri...
This rookie is living his father’s MLB dream By Juan Toribio @juanctoribio June 17, 2023 Facebook Share Twitter Share Email Copy Link LOS ANGELES -- When asked how many hits his father, Cuban baseball legend Lazaro Vargas, recorded during his illustrious career in the Cuban National ...
That’s the story ofJim Morris. It’s a great story. An incredible story. A story so good that Walt Disney Pictures turned it into “The Rookie,” the 2002 film starring Dennis Quaid as Morris. It became the fourth-highest-grossing baseball movie of all-time. ...
Emilio Estevez plays Otto, a repo man in-training, as it were, by the quirky Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a longtime repo man showing the rookie how to play the game. Car repossession is a dangerous gig. Most people don’t want to lose their vehicles, some of those people are 6’10...
Point Break is an iconic '90s movie in which Keanu Reeves plays rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who has to — and we're not kidding here — infiltrate an L.A. "surf gang" suspected of robbing banks. Very little in this movie makes any sense (the large reason Utah is assigned the ...