Back in the game

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Movie
German title Back in the game
Original title Trouble with the curve
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Robert Lorenz
script Randy Brown
production Clint Eastwood ,
Robert Lorenz,
Michele Weisler
music Marco Beltrami
camera Tom Stern
cut Joel Cox ,
Gary D. Roach
occupation

Back in the Game (Originally Trouble with the Curve ) is an American drama directed by Robert Lorenz from 2012 with Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams in the lead roles.

action

The aging baseball - Scout Gus Lobel gets professionally slowly behind. As in his previous professional life, he still reads the game results in the newspaper and looks at the players on the field. Unlike the other talent scouts, he does not use a computer or statistical analysis for his work. Gus suffers from macular degeneration and therefore has increasing problems with his eyesight. However, he does not tell his superiors about this. Regardless of this, however, they plan not to extend his contract, which is about to expire.

His daughter Mickey Lobel is about to become a partner in the law firm for which she has worked for seven years. After losing her mother early on, she was out with her father for a while as a child and learned so much about baseball. Pete Klein, a friend and colleague of her father, asks her to visit her father because he is worried about him. Mickey finally learns about her father's eye problems from Gus' doctor and drives to him. Gus doesn't want to talk about his illness, however, and Mickey leaves.

For his employer, Gus is supposed to see a talented young player at some of his games. Since Mickey is still worried about her father, she takes a few days off and drives back to her father to help him see his players. On the sidelines, they meet Johnny Flanagan, who is also a talent scout and sees young baseball players for another team. Up to an arm injury, Johnny himself was a promising player who was discovered by Gus. Johnny asks Mickey to go out to dinner with him, but she refuses. A few days later, Gus can still urge his daughter to have a drink with Johnny. Over the next few days, the two slowly get closer and they finally kiss during a night swim in the lake.

Because of his vast experience, Gus hears that the young player has problems with a certain type of ball. Mickey can confirm her father's suspicions. Gus therefore recommends his team not to make an offer to sign this player. Gus also tells Johnny about the young player's problems, who then recommends that his team do without this player. Since Gus' team, the Atlanta Braves , still commit the young player against his recommendation, Johnny feels betrayed by Gus and Mickey.

Since Mickey has not been in the office for a few days, an important case is withdrawn from her. This also jeopardizes their calling to be partners. She then begins to doubt her career as a lawyer.

Mickey and her father quarrel because Mickey felt neglected by her father after her mother's death. However, Gus no longer wanted to expose his daughter to the uncertainty of his life and he feared that he would not be able to protect her. So he had left Mickey with her aunt for a year during her childhood and later sent him to boarding school. Due to the argument, Gus leaves the hotel where the two are staying.

By chance, Mickey discovers a talented young thrower who does not play on any team. She can persuade Pete Klein to look at him. During the subsequent demonstration in the stadium, the young thrower reveals the weaknesses of the player who has just been signed up and Gus's superiors become aware of their mistake. You then offer Gus to extend his contract. However, he has already decided not to accept this offer. Mickey wants to end her career as a lawyer to work as a manager for the young thrower. When Gus and Mickey leave the stadium, Johnny is waiting for them in front of it.

publication

The film was shown in American cinemas on September 21, 2012. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on November 29, 2012. On March 30, 2013, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray.

The film grossed around 49 million US dollars at the box office worldwide. Of that $ 12 million on the grand opening weekend alone and a total of $ 36 million in the US.

criticism

“It is impressive to see the decisiveness with which Clint Eastwood regards cinema as a moral institution, and sometimes dismaying at the stale means with which this is carried out here. The dramaturgy comes from push television, the exaggerated facial expressions from the sitcom aesthetic, the supporting roles from the figure shelf of the 1960s. "

- Harald Jähner : Frankfurter Rundschau

useful information

Back in the Game is Clint Eastwood's first appearance as an actor since 2008 in the film Gran Torino and the first film since In the Line of Fire in 1993, in which he appears as an actor but does not also direct.

In the United States, it was debated whether Eastwood's controversial appearance at the Republican Congress could harm the success of the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Back in the Game . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 783 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Back in the Game . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ List of publications in the OFDb
  4. ↑ Box Office Mojo: Back in the Game grossing results , accessed on May 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Harald Jähner: Home tour of the Sturköppe. Frankfurter Rundschau, November 27, 2012, accessed on January 8, 2017 .
  6. ^ Derrik J. Lang: Did Eastwood's RNC act cause trouble for 'Curve'? AP, September 6, 2012, accessed January 8, 2017 .