Today’s movie is a sports dramedy with a scene that happens on January 18. Watch and enjoy this film tonight.
MILLION DOLLAR ARM
J. B. Bernstein and his partner Ash Vasudevan are sports agents whose stars are all retiring. Bernstein gets the idea to look in India for new talent among cricket players and convinces an investor, Will Chang to pay, provided the new talent is ready within one year for a major league tryout. In spite of learning that the pitching motions for baseball and cricket are totally different, Bernstein and veteran scout Ray Poitevint head to India. The first kids who try out are complete failures, until on January 18, 2008 [33:21 – 35:54] in tryouts at Lucknow they discover speedballers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. Bernstein takes the boys to America, but basically abandons them. Their tryout for the major leagues is a failure as they are too nervous to pitch correctly. Bernstein arranges for new tryout for the Pittsburgh Pirates scout, who missed the first one. This time the pair relax and pitch so well that the Pirates offer both a contract.
In the movie at 1:55:10 it gives the date they were signed to a contract with the Pirates as November 18, 2008. At 1:55:25 it says that this was ten months to the date after Rinku and Dinesh first picked up a baseball.
Producers - Joe Roth, Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray
Director - Craig Gillespie
Screenwriter - Thomas McCarthy
Runtime – 2 hours 4 minutes
Released – May 6, 2014
Cast –
Jon Hamm as J. B. Bernstein
Aasif Mandvi as Ash Vasudevan
Suraj Sharma as Rinku Singh
Madhur Mittal as Dinesh Patel
Bill Paxton as Tom House
Lake Bell as Brenda Fenwick
Alan Arkin as Ray Poitevint
Pitobash Tripathy as Amit Rohan
Allyn Rachel as Theresa
Darshan Jariwala as Vivek
Tzi Ma as Will Chang
Bar Paly as Lisette
Rey Maualuga as Popo
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2016.
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