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Release Date
• USA: Mar 29, 2002
• UK: 11 Oct 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 27, 2002
Budget $24,000,000
Official Website:
The Rookie Website
MPAA Rating
G
Running Time
2 hours, 7 minutes
Country USA
Studio 98 MPH Productions, Bedlam Pictures, Mark Johnson Productions
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• The Rookie
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Genre: Drama, Sports, Biography, School / Campus, Marriage, True Story
Tagline: It's never too late to believe in your dreams.
Plot: Based on a true story about a coach who discovers that it's never too late for dreams to come true. Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field - until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
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John Lee Hancock
The Alamo, Dead I Well May Be, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
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