Cinema Goggles – September 19
Don’t miss this one, as it features everyone’s favourite television star, Jon Hamm:
Million Dollar Arm
Genre: Drama
Starring: Aasif Mandvi, Alan Arkin, Bill Paxton, Jon Hamm, Lake Bell, Madhur Mittal, Suraj Sharma
Once-successful sports agent JB Bernstein finds himself edged out by bigger, slicker competitors. He and his partner Ash are in danger of losing their business.
While watching a cricket match on TV, JB decides to go to India where the match was held in a crazy effort to find the next baseball pitching sensation.
In Mumbai, he stages a televised, nationwide competition called Million Dollar Arm, where 40 000 hopefuls compete. The winners are Rinku and Dinesh, both 18.
JB takes them back to the US to train with legendary pitching coach Tom House, in order to get them signed to a major league team. But Rinku and Dinesh struggle, not only with the language and cultural differences, but also to master the game of baseball.
As JB finds himself teaching the boys the true meaning of teamwork and commitment, he finds something he wasn’t looking for – a family.
