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Plot: A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.

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Recent Reviews

  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 16, 2008
    kindove kool.

    this movie was so good. i liked it so much! well it was sort of boring and stuff. i watched it at school when all of the studends who are super good by never geting rifurals went to thiese feeld trips, but i had to stay in school with some guys and some girls and watch this movie. then we watched freedom writers but we did not finish it.
    note to people that love baseball: you totaly should watch this movie. you will love this movie.:)xoxo.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 9, 2008
    A true story in which seems like it could only happen in the movies. It also explains why the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were so bad for so long.
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    MCT:
    May 31, 2008
    Jimmy Morris (Dennis Quaid) is a Chemistry Teacher at a Texas high school. He's a head baseball & assistant football coach. Jimmy will attend a tryout camp for Major League Baseball as a relief pitcher to discover his ability to repeatedly throw the baseball at 98 miles per hour to affords him the opportunity to play professional baseball for being a professional baseball player & he signs on with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 31, 2008
    I saw this in Spain. It actually made me cry a bit when he calls home from his away game and he's in the phone booth... and he talks to his son.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 27, 2008
    I didn't want to see this one at first but after I watched it I loved it. This is a great Family Movie!!!!
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 24, 2008
    Based on a true story, this is a quite inspirational movie. Quaid is, as always, instantly likeable.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 1, 2008
    Fans of baseball and those who've played the game - hell, anyone who's ever looked back on life and said "If I had a second chance..." will like this movie.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 24, 2008
    Great script for a real-life plot. Many touching scenes and speeches. Although Quaid doesn't look like Morris, he certainly has the portrait of heart and soul of Morris.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 2, 2007
    i think that this is a good baseball movie like all sports i think its difficult to make a sports movie unless its based on a true story

    and i think that dennis quad has a good performance and if only i could pitch that first

    but what sets this movie aside from your average movie this is one of mainy few movies that have true feeling and meaning in the movie

    and dream of fields and stomp the yard are two other examples

    you watch this movie and you can see how much it means to jim morris to make it and how much he wants his dream

    and i think we should watch this movie and learn never to give up on our dreams
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 1, 2007
    A heartwarming movie about father/son relationships and Americas favorite-Baseball.The fact that it's based on a true story makes it all the more enjoyable.Dennis Quaid is great.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 11, 2007
    This is the biggest cry movie that I've ever seen. I swear, I blubber all the way through it. What can I say, I love this game!
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 11, 2007
    im watching that!!!!! how funny, we're at the art where he's walking into the major leage lockerroom for the firt time.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 11, 2007
    Walt Disney's "The Rookie" is based on the story of Jim Morris, a former minor league picher who made one of the most amazing comebacks in sports history, ending an almost 10 year retirement and making his Major League debut in 1999 at the age of 35.
    Quaid is believable in playing Jim Morris because, unlike actors in the past in sports films, he knows how to throw a baseball. He looks like a pitcher, a guy who could fire it 90-plus miles per hour. There may be nothing much new in it for adults, but `The Rookie' has the skill to make what was old seem somehow new again. Not unlike what happens to the hero himself in fact.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 24, 2007
    Once again, this movie is so good. I would change a few things about it, but this is a very good movie how it is. I watched it when I was about 7 or 8 and loved it, and I still do.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 21, 2007
    I loved this film----a true family film through and through. It is enjoyable for adults of any age...not only kids. I love Quaid in this...well...I love Quaid period!
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 20, 2007
    I really liked this Disney Movie, about an middle aged High School Baseball Coach who finally makes it to the Big League's.

    This is every man's (Baseball Fan's) dream after his 40th Birthday, to demonstrate he has the stuff and that he belongs out there with these younger professional's.

    Dennis Quaid played this part more with heart and guts then with talent.

    This is a must see for all men who have unforfilled dream's.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 10, 2007
    This family film was actually enjoyable for me - an adult. Most 'family' films fail to be watchable for everyone in a family.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 4, 2007
    I loved this movie because it features my favorite team (The Devil Rays) and its not too bad. Rather imspiring. Some of the stuff is just corny. The stupid MPH reader that decides to not light 2 bulbs up is just so Disney, and so dumb. Otherwise, good stuff!
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 29, 2007
    Completely predictable, but thoroughly enjoyable, with Dennis Quaid knocking it out of the park... literally and in terms of his performance.

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  • pavacri23
    pretty cool movie showing that always is good to have hopes
    posted 96 days ago
  • nsd2b
    How can I meet Mr. Jimmy Morris the man who dared to catch his dream!!!!!!!
    posted 420 days ago

Details

  • Rated: (G)
  • Directed by: John Lee Hancock
  • Genres: Drama
  • Released: March 29, 2002
  • DVD Released: August 27, 2002

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