Million Dollar Arm

— It’s nice to base a film on a true story, but this story was a little slow starting. Travelling from town to town in India trying to locate potential major league baseball pitchers should have been a preface, not a third of the film. The real story is the culture shock and adaptation, the homesickness, and the triumph of the two Indian players, along with their agent’s realization that love and family may be more important than money, conquests, and cars. Disney's "Million Dollar Arm" (DVD) was just so-so and much more suited for stumbling across while channel surfing than sitting down to deliberately watch.

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[2014. 124 min. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Jon Hamm, PitobAlan Arkinash, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, and Lake Bell.]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2014/05/16/review-million-dollar-arm-successfully-brings-sports-film-genre-to-india/