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The Rookie (2002)
6.9
Ratings: 6.9/10 from 16,014 users
Metascore:
72/100
Reviews: 168 user | 93 critic | 31 from Metacritic.com A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs. Director:John Lee HancockWriter:Mike Rich |
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| Dennis Quaid | ... | ||
| Rachel Griffiths | ... | ||
| Jay Hernandez | ... | ||
| Beth Grant | ... | ||
| Angus T. Jones | ... | ||
| Brian Cox | ... | ||
| Rick Gonzalez | ... | ||
| Chad Lindberg | ... | ||
| Angelo Spizzirri | ... | ||
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Royce D. Applegate | ... | |
| Russell Richardson | ... | ||
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Raynor Scheine | ... | |
| David Blackwell | ... | ||
| Blue Deckert | ... | ||
| Danny Kamin | ... |
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Storyline
Jim Morris is a Texas high school chemistry teacher and coach of the school's baseball team. He's always loved baseball and as a way of motivating his players, he agrees to go to a professional try-out if they win the championship. He once had aspirations to be a professional baseball player but an injury brought that to an end. Sure enough, the 39 year-old father of three finds himself at a camp for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and he somehow seems to have regained his pitching arm, easily throwing a 98 mph fastball. Signed to a contract, he toils in the minor leagues while his supportive wife stays home raising their children. He soon finds himself called up to the big club and pitching for Tampa which is in Texas playing the Rangers. Based on a true story. Written by garykmcd
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El novato See more »Box Office
Budget:
$20,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$16,021,684 (USA) (31 March 2002) (2511 Screens)Gross:
$80,693,537 (Worldwide)Company Credits
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Jimmy: I don't know... I'm tired.
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Written by Paul Greenstein
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When Jimmy says to Brooks, "You know what we get to do today? We get to play baseball," it is a reference to a deleted scene, where Brooks tells Jimmy how his father said the same thing before every game he would play as a boy. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: When the taxi that Morris and Brooks are riding in upon arriving at the Ballpark in Arlington, it is clearly driving on the wrong side of the road. See more »Quotes
Lorri: So how does it feel to be the oldest rookie in the last 30 years?Jimmy: I don't know... I'm tired.
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"Truly Cooley"Written by Paul Greenstein
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