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Every evening, Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) is out practicing pitching. His minor league career ended with a shoulder injury twelve years ago. Now, Jim coaches a struggling high school team. When he tries to motivate them, they challenge him--if they reach the play offs, he must try out for the majors. The team starts to win, and .. Read more

Starring Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Beth Grant
Director John Lee Hancock
Genres Drama

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    Roth to start Hostel sequel

    • 27 Apr 2006

    Horror favourite Eli Roth has revealed that he plans to start penning the sequel to 'gorenography' flick Hostel this week. Roth told MTV: "I've been doing a world tour with Hostel, doing press. It has been opening in every other country, and I have been making notes. But [this week] I am really going to unplug my phone, shut off my email, and write the script. And we are going to shoot it this summer." The Cabin Fever director revealed that he wanted the story to follow on immediately Read more

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    Smith set to play Katrina hero

    • 21 May 2009

    Will Smith is to play a real-life Hurricane Katrina hero in new film to be written and directed by someone named HANCOCK. The Hancock star will help take The Rookie screenwriter John Lee Hancock's new film about ex-Marine John Keller to the big screen. Keller helped rescue more than 200 of his New Orleans, Louisiana neighbours when they were left stranded by the devastation of Katrina in 2005. Read more

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    • The Rookie - Blu-ray
      Based on a true story of Jim Morris, a thirty-five year high school baseball coach, who retired from baseball because of a shoulder injury, who is persuaded to try out for a major league organisation... Being able to throw a ball at 98 mph soon becomes second nature and the team, with the oldest ...

    • The Rookie
      Every evening, Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) is out practicing pitching. His minor league career ended with a shoulder injury twelve years ago. Now, Jim coaches a struggling high school team. When he tries to motivate them, they challenge him--if they reach the play offs, he must try out for the majors....