Walt Disney Pictures MILLION DOLLAR ARM

Walt Disney Pictures MILLION DOLLAR ARM


Very seldom does my hubby ask to go to the movies.  He is cheap and just likes to rent it when it comes out on DVD.  So when he told me he wanted to see Million Dollar Arm I knew we HAD to go.  Friday night we are having a date night with dinner and a movie :)!


About the movie:

Based on a true story, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) finds that business has changed and things 
aren’t going well for his career. In a last ditch effort to save his livelihood he concocts a scheme to find 
baseball’s next great pitching ace. Hoping to find a young cricket pitcher he can turn into a major league 
baseball star, JB travels to India to produce a reality show competition called “The Million Dollar Arm.”


With the help of cantankerous but eagle-eyed retired baseball scout Ray Poitevint (Alan Arkin), he 
discovers Dinesh (played by Madhur Mittal from “Slumdog Millionaire”) and Rinku (played by Suraj 
Sharma from “Life of Pi”), two 18-year-old boys who have no idea about playing baseball, yet have a 
knack for throwing a fastball. Hoping to sign them to major league contracts and make a quick buck, JB brings the boys home to America to train. While the Americans are definitely out of their element in India, 

the boys, who have never left their rural villages, are equally challenged when they come to the States. 
As the boys learn the finer points of baseball, JB, with the help of his charming friend Brenda (Lake Bell), 
learns valuable life lessons about teamwork, commitment and what it means to be a family. 
Directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy, Walt Disney Pictures’ drama 
“Million Dollar Arm” stars Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton, Suraj Sharma, Lake Bell and Alan Arkin. 
The producers are Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray and Joe Roth. The executive producers are Palak Patel, 
Kevin Halloran, Bill Simmons and Connor Schell. The film will be release in the United States on May 16, 
2014.