The Rookie 2002 123movies

Watch: The Rookie 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jim Morris is a Texas high school chemistry teacher and coach of the school’s baseball team. He’s always loved baseball and as a way of motivating his players, he agrees to go to a professional try-out if they win the championship. He once had aspirations to be a professional baseball player but an injury brought that to an end. Sure enough, the 39 year-old father of three finds himself at a camp for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and he somehow seems to have regained his pitching arm, easily throwing a 98 mph fastball. Signed to a contract, he toils in the minor leagues while his supportive wife stays home raising their children. He soon finds himself called up to the big club and pitching for Tampa which is in Texas playing the Rangers. Based on a true story..
Plot: Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim’s team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field–until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim’s still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there’s no telling where he could go.
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	6.9/10 Votes: 35,261
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 361 Popularity: 17.067 | TMDB

Reviews:

John Lee Hancock Gets a Pop Up Inside the Park with Dennis Quaid
“Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid), father, teacher, and high school coach, thought his dream was over. He’d had his shot playing baseball, blew out his shoulder, and retired without ever making it to the big leagues. Then, in 1999, Coach Morris made a fateful bet with his perpetually losing team. If they won the district championship, Morris – who threw a 98 mph fastball – would try out for the majors. The team went from worst to first, and Jim, living up to his end of the bargain, threw caution to the wind and was on the road to becoming the oldest rookie in the major leagues…” according to the official studio synopsis.

This “feel good / family” movie is nicely played, but blandly fictionalized. As the thirtysomething man receiving a second chance at major league baseball stardom, Mr. Quaid is very believable. His character seems unnaturally distant from family members, which makes you yearn for more physical and emotional contact – perhaps, this is intentional. Quaid is closer to his likewise too old high school students: Jay Hernandez (as Joaquin “Wack” Campos), Rick Gonzalez (as Rudy Bonilla), Chad Lindberg (as Joe David West), and Angelo Spizzirri (as Joel De La Garza). Along with rookie pal Russell Richardson (as Brooks), the younger baseball players are excellent, and give the Quaid and the film heart.

That Mr. Spizzirri is among the standout young performers – he is immediately impressive, as Coach Quaid’s high school catcher kid – makes the sadness of his untimely death linger. Curvaceous Rachel Griffiths (as Lorri Morris), appropriately distant Brian Cox (as Jim Morris Sr.), and “Two and a Half Men” star Angus T. Jones (as Hunter Morris) are the family who could have stood some deeper characterization. The song played over the end credits, “Some Dreams” by Steve Earle, fits the film like a glove: “Some dreams don’t ever come true… aw, but some dreams do.”

***** The Rookie (3/26/02) John Lee Hancock ~ Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Angelo Spizzirri

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 7 min (127 min)
Budget 20000000
Revenue 75597042
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Drama, Family, Sport
Director John Lee Hancock
Writer Mike Rich
Actors Dennis Quaid, JD Evermore, Rachel Griffiths
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length (7 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 200T 5274, Vision 320T 5277, Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak)