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Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Craig Gillespie
Production: Walt Disney Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
PG
Year:
2014
124 min
Website
910 Views


Yeah, that was Popo. Popo was our guy.

I don't want to quit on you. I don't.

I just don't know what else to do.

We're gonna crack this thing, Aash.

All right.

We're gonna crack it, Aash.

I dreamed a dream

in time gone by

When hope was high

and life worth living...

Youse didn't expect that,

did you? Did you? No.

I dreamed that love

would never die...

...in front to have in the back...

...downtown Los Angeles...

...oxygen to every load

to boost your detergent...

Certainly

a big series for Matt Prior.

Disappointing against

the Indians in the test.

- Seventy runs.

- Chance to make amends today.

One of the things about...

...die

I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid...

...of the wicket, a wide half-volley.

- Cook knows it.

- Oh, my.

So different from this hell I'm living...

It's been a successful

performance from Alastair Cook...

Hey. How fast do they pitch in cricket?

Fine, bowl.

How fast do they bowl in cricket?

You know what?

Get me a meeting with Chang this week.

I think I cracked this.

They don't play baseball in India.

That's right. They don't.

They play cricket.

But we think that we can convert

a cricket bowler into a baseball pitcher.

Look, India is the last

great untapped market.

We find new fans there

for American baseball,

the financial opportunities are endless.

Mr. Chang, if we can deliver

to Major League Baseball

its first Indian ballplayer,

that's a billion new fans.

What do a billion new fans need?

A billion hats. A billion T-shirts.

And you wanna set this up

like it's a talent contest?

Exactly.

That will ensure

maximum exposure of talent to press.

See, once we go over there

and find these guys,

we bring them back here,

we train them in LA,

and then we get them signed

with a professional franchise.

- What's your timeline?

- Two years.

Can you do it in one?

Sure.

Really? A year? Because

I thought we said two.

I had to hook him.

Okay, we can't find

and train two nobodies in a year.

It can't be done.

Well, without this deal, we're done.

So I just saved our business, Aash.

You should be thanking me.

Oh, I would thank you

if the deal wasn't insane.

- Well, apparently Chang didn't think so.

- Chang is rich.

You know what rich people can do?

They can be insane. We can't, okay?

We can't find somebody

who has never picked up a baseball

and teach them how to pitch.

You're right, we can't.

But I know someone who can.

Cross it over.

Bend it deep.

Pre-set your fanny.

Lift and plant hard.

Thank you.

That's our guy. Tom House.

Glove out front.

PhD in psychology-

Thirty years in the big leagues

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Thomas Joseph "Tom" McCarthy is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor who has appeared in several films, including Meet the Parents and Good Night, and Good Luck, and television series such ... more…

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