Million Dollar Arm

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Saw this movie with my daughter just now - a wonderful and beautiful film in every respect. I recommend to all! So refreshing to see simple and good people like the two Indian men go so far in life. The characters are wonderful and well acted, the movie is very professionally done, and the whole thing is a good high-budget project with Disney at its best. To top it off, the story is true! Truth is better than fiction, and this story shows it. I plan on researching the players further to find out what happened to them in the major leagues. I also enjoyed seeing India as a developing country with beauty and promise.

You can give Million Dollar Arm a miss: I went to watch the movie expecting that the movie is the American Dream transpiring to the Indian Diaspora. Unfortunately the movie failed to live up even to my modest expectation. The movie shows India in a bad light and exaggerates poverty and bribery. Parts of the story are completely out of sync, for example, the movie never shows why the athlete Poco calls JBB again after they fall out in the beginning of the movie. It appears to be an after thought. India has much more to offer than chaos elephants and poverty. True India struggles with its issues but there should be sensitivity towards these. If the intent of the movie was to make baseball popular in India it has failed at this task miserably. It shoud've focused instead on Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel's success as baseball pitchers.

Started watching Million Dollar Arm casually, had all the makings of a formula movie. they had cast one actor each from recently successful India based movies Slum Dog Millionaire & Life of Pi. AR Rahman had been promptly asked to do the music score, and was full of sports movie clichés.. Another attempt to cash in on the billion plus Indian audience! I thought.... Slowly the movie began drawing my attention (from whatsapp), sports genre being my favourite and when I was beginning to think "OK - not so bad ending"... was surprised when learnt at the end that all this was based on true story. But real aha momemt came when one of my favourite ARR composition "Thirakata Katukulle" started played as credit roll background score..I was converted from skeptic to a approver of this movie.. good watch. formula works..after all

As another reviewer stated, this is a bit predictable, with your underdog character and not too likable agent whose main interests are image and the lifestyle that accompanies it. Maybe I am being a bit harsh, as all of the main actors, with the exception of Alan Arkin, were not familiar to me, and hence at least they were refreshing in a way. The storyline has some funny moments, and real on-set locations in India. Also refreshing to see a movie these days with no foul language or sex or nudity. What made the movie for me though, was the the ending and the credits at the end, which made the characters and story much more real and personal. A good family film.

American sports film and specially with sports like American Football, Baseball are hard to relate to a non American. But some films rise above the sport itself and it becomes more than the sport a human drama perhaps the last film to achieve this was brad pitt's money ball and Jerry McGuire before it. John Ham does justice to the roll of a recruiter trying to get a buck to save his agency and as films go rises above his dreams of fortune to do something greater than that. . If you're looking for an exciting drama which grips you or something that makes you go whoa this is not it and nor does it give you the kick after watching the super bowl. But it definitely is a decent feel good film about a recruiter who gambles to get out of the grunts and the story of two young Indian boys who find their dream which they don't know was there's. Worth a watch on lazy Sunday afternoon.

Feel good kind of movie... loved casting and shooting locations.

This movie had it all. The movie had tears, laughter, smiles everything in one. It was such an intense movie and sort of made me feel like anything positive is possible in the world if you just believe in it. It has sports, and love. Also brings the east and west together. It kind of shows that we humans can adjust and live alongside everyone. I might be a bit biased as am an Indian by origin, but I found myself constantly laughing and smiling throughout the movie. I miss my home, and the movie showed the value of family life as well as making family that aren't blood related to you. The music A R Rahman killing it as usual. Just go watch it, you won't regret it.

The jury seems to be out on whether Hamm can act or not. Just because one doesn't like his character surely that is no reason to say "he cannot act". I have yet to see a man cry convincingly in films. Hamm cried twice and convinced me. He can be tender - as with Anna - he can be confident and forceful when doing a presentation. He is super sexy with Sylvia etc. If his character were soft and sweet surely we would not all be mesmerised by the series of Mad Men? He is superb, as they all are in the cast, with very few exceptions. I would take issue with the lady who says "all men are pigs". Such a naive and feminist statement . Would she prefer that all men steer clear of women - where would that get us? Not all the men in the show are "pigs" (as she calls them). How about Harry Crane; Henry Francis; Joan's husband; Cosgrove and possibly Lane Pryce. JFK was a womaniser and also a superb President - the like of which we shall never see again.