Academy Award® winner Clint Eastwood
(“Million Dollar Baby,” “Unforgiven”), Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (“The Fighter,”
“Doubt”), and Justin Timberlake (“The Social Network,” “Friends with Benefits”)
star in Warner Bros.’ “Trouble with the Curve,” which marks the feature film
directorial debut of Eastwood’s longtime producing partner Robert Lorenz.
Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. |
In
the film, Gus Lobel (Eastwood) has been one of the best scouts in baseball for
decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with
him. Nevertheless, Gus—who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the
bat—refuses to be benched for what could be the final innings of his career.
He
may not have a choice. The front office of the Atlanta Braves is starting to
question his judgment, especially with the country’s hottest batting phenom on
deck for the draft. The one person who might be able to help is also the one
person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickey (Adams), an associate at a
high-powered Atlanta law firm whose drive and ambition has put her on the fast
track to becoming partner. Mickey has never been close to her father, who was
ill-equipped to be a single parent after the death of his wife. Even now, in
the rare moments they share, he is too easily distracted by what Mickey assumes
is his first love: the game.
Against
her better judgment, and over Gus’s objections, Mickey joins him on his latest
scouting trip to North Carolina, jeopardizing her own career to save his.
Forced to spend time together for the first time in years, each makes new
discoveries—revealing long-held truths about their past and present that could
change their future.
Timberlake
is Johnny Flanagan, a rival scout who has his sights on a career in the
announcer’s booth…and has eyes for Mickey. The main cast also includes John
Goodman as Gus’s old friend and boss, Pete Klein, and Matthew Lillard as
Phillip Sanderson, the Braves’ associate director of scouting.
“‘Trouble with the Curve’ is a story
about how we deal with what life throws at us,” describes director/producer
Robert Lorenz. “It has characters in whom we can all see a bit of ourselves,
reaching those moments in life when we are faced with re-evaluating priorities:
the importance we put on our careers, our friendships and our family.”
At
the center of the story are a father and daughter whose lives have taken them
in opposite directions. Even when they’re together, they are worlds apart. But
now, circumstances are forcing them to face their differences on common ground.
“In any family, even when things get
tough, there are always ties that connect you,” says the film’s star and
producer Clint Eastwood. “You just have to find a starting point to begin to
close the gap.”
Trouble
With The Curve” is distributed in the Philippines by Warner Bros. Pictures, a
Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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