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The Rookie
Directed by
John Lee Hancock
2002
2h 7m
G
Drama
,
Family
,
Sport
6.9
84%
70%
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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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Cast of The Rookie
Dennis Quaid
Jimmy Morris
Rachel Griffiths
Lorri Morris
Jay Hernandez
Joaquin 'Wack' Campos
Beth Grant
Olline
Angus T. Jones
Hunter Morris
Brian Cox
Jim Morris Sr.
Rick Gonzalez
Rudy Bonilla
Chad Lindberg
Joe David West
Angelo Spizzirri
Joel De La Garza
Royce D. Applegate
Henry
Russell Richardson
Brooks
Raynor Scheine
Frank
Chris Sheffield
Catcher
Brandon Smith
Orlando Manager
The Rookie Reviews
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
At two-plus hours, The Rookie is a good 20 minutes too long, but for father-son teams waiting eagerly for the umpire's "Play ball!", it's an uplifting season opener.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
You can see why the filmmakers optioned the story from a Sports Illustrated article: It just works.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
But The Rookie belongs to Quaid. Here is an actor born to be in a baseball film. He is never anything less than believable as the stalwart Morris. More than that, though, Quaid just seems to get better and better as the years go by.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
The kind of old-fashioned biopic that makes you want to go out and read the book.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Sweet and engaging despite some flaws.
Associated Press
David Germain
Morris ultimately lasted two partial seasons in the majors, and the film's rendering of his minor-league struggle is so enjoyable you want to see more of that and less of the everyday life preceding it.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Though Hancock traffics in a lot of bogus small-town sentiment, The Rookie exhibits a refreshingly honest understanding of baseball as a job, with long road trips away from home and a workmanlike routine.
New Yorker
Bruce Diones
It's Quaid and his fellow actors, Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox, who lift the film out of its intermittent doldrums, and together they deliver that rare thing: a nuanced sports movie.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Deftly constructed to stoke the baseball-phenom fantasies of coulda-shoulda-woulda middle-aged guys and fields-of-dreaming young diamond studs.
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
All the uplift could easily get cloying, but director John Lee Hancock knows how to keep things in control, and the whole is surprisingly satisfying.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
What saves it is Dennis Quaid, a fine and generally underrated actor who plays a real-life small-town Texas high-school science teacher and baseball coach who fulfills his dream of pitching in the big leagues.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Hancock's heartfelt movie scores a solid hit.
Observer
Rex Reed
A sports film with feel-happy appeal for all, regardless of age or interest.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
I hesitate to use the phrase 'family film' because it has such fluffy connotations, but this is really a rare G-rated movie that's suitable for all viewers.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
It's a true family film with a good message, an endearing cast and nothing even a bit objectionable.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Morris' story was a cinch to become a movie, and Disney does an adequate if somewhat bland job in bringing it to the screen.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
So unassuming and pure of heart, you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'Safe!'
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