Million Dollar Arm

(2014)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 684 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2014

Runtime: 124 мин

Country: United States of America, Ukraine

Director: Крэйг Гиллеспи

Cast: Джон Хэмм, Pitobash, Сурадж Шарма, Madhur Mittal, Асиф Мандви, Даршан Джаривала, Лейк Белл, Алан Аркин, Билл Пэкстон, Грегори Алан Уильямс

Plot

In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.

In 2008, J. B. Bernstein is a sports agent who finds his business being seriously outplayed by his deep-pocketed competitors. Inspired by reality shows and Indian cricket games on TV, Bernstein gets the bold idea of finding cricket players in India and training them to become pro baseball players in America. After a long search, Bernstein finds two talented, but non-cricket playing, youths, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. Together, Berthstein takes his prospects to Los Angeles where they find mastering a new sport in a foreign land a daunting challenge. As these boys struggle amid an alien culture, Bernstein must find a way to make their dream come true. In doing, Bernstein finds a deeper humanity to his work with growing friendships he never expected to have.