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Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Ep. 108 - The Rookie
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Our "Summer Of Quaid" continues, this time with Dennis playing real-life Tampa Bay relief pitcher Jim Morris in The Rookie.
John Lee Hancock has directed many biopics and The Rookie is perhaps his most inspirational. It's certainly trying to be. Still, the movie just isn't an *ahem* home run. Disney was in the middle of a successful run of films just like this , but we felt that--for all of The Rookie's merits---the Mouse House simply did it better with Miracle, Glory Road and even Invincible. Like those, this is a story about an underdog who wants to do the impossible...and we've seen that story many times before (and those other ones weren't so mopey). Hancock has Quaid playing Morris as a sad-sack 38-year-old with no confidence, even though he was able to throw a baseball harder than almost anyone else in the world. Where's the joy? Anyway, it's a well-made baseball movie and at least that's right up our alley.
So fire up our talk about a popular version of "same old/same old" because it's your turn, Coach.
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