
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 ... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about Million Dollar Arm.
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA superb sports drama about the spiritual transformation of a sports agent. |
| OregonianJeff BakerThe potentially huge audience for Million Dollar Arm deserves a better movie, less derivative and cynical and more like something real. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirMillion Dollar Arm is not just a Disney film, but a Disney film that could have been made, with minor elisions and different character names, in 1963. |
| Movie MezzanineOdie HendersonMillion Dollar Arm's biggest strength is its sneaky way of making you care about its characters. Sure, it's clichéd, but it's perfectly fine Sunday afternoon movie fare. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyJB is not the wisest of men and Million Dollar Arm makes no bones about him being a character in need of an upward arc. Even so, the movie never sacrifices the other characters as mere handmaidens to his growth. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaAchieves a certain emotional authenticity even as the viewer anticipates exactly which heart string will be plucked and how. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenAlthough this film is based on a true story, it looks as if the facts were smashed to a paste which was then molded into the exact shape of a typical sports underdog story. It works. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottIt's always okay when a baseball movie goes into extra innings. |
| The PlaylistDrew TaylorIt's a different kind of Disney sports movie, more textured, gently spiritual and warmly idiosyncratic, but one that still, before the credits roll, will make you want to stand up and cheer. |
| Showbiz JunkiesRebecca MurrayIt's everything you expect a Disney "inspirational sports movie" to be. |