The Rookie
March 2002
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Jack Mathews
At two-plus hours, The Rookie is a good 20 minutes too long, but for father-son teams waiting eagerly for the umpire's "Play ball!", it's an uplifting season opener.
David Germain
Morris ultimately lasted two partial seasons in the majors, and the film's rendering of his minor-league struggle is so enjoyable you want to see more of that and less of the everyday life...
Scott Tobias
Though Hancock traffics in a lot of bogus small-town sentiment, The Rookie exhibits a refreshingly honest understanding of baseball as a job, with long road trips away from home and a workmanlike...
Bruce Diones
It's Quaid and his fellow actors, Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox, who lift the film out of its intermittent doldrums, and together they deliver that rare thing: a nuanced sports movie.
Joe Morgenstern
Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be.
Joe Leydon
Deftly constructed to stoke the baseball-phenom fantasies of coulda-shoulda-woulda middle-aged guys and fields-of-dreaming young diamond studs.
Critic reviews
Jack Mathews
At two-plus hours, The Rookie is a good 20 minutes too long, but for father-son teams waiting eagerly for the umpire's "Play ball!", it's an uplifting season opener.
David Germain
Morris ultimately lasted two partial seasons in the majors, and the film's rendering of his minor-league struggle is so enjoyable you want to see more of that and less of the everyday life...
Scott Tobias
Though Hancock traffics in a lot of bogus small-town sentiment, The Rookie exhibits a refreshingly honest understanding of baseball as a job, with long road trips away from home and a workmanlike...
Bruce Diones
It's Quaid and his fellow actors, Rachel Griffiths and Brian Cox, who lift the film out of its intermittent doldrums, and together they deliver that rare thing: a nuanced sports movie.
Joe Morgenstern
Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be.
Joe Leydon
Deftly constructed to stoke the baseball-phenom fantasies of coulda-shoulda-woulda middle-aged guys and fields-of-dreaming young diamond studs.
Hank Sartin
All the uplift could easily get cloying, but director John Lee Hancock knows how to keep things in control, and the whole is surprisingly satisfying.
Cast and credits
Actors | Dennis Quad, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Brian Cox |
Producers | Gordon Gray, Mark Ciardi, Mark Johnson |
Director | John Lee Hancock |
Writers | Mike Rich |
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Subtitles
English, Korean
Rental period
Start within 30 days, finish within 72 hours.
Run time
128 minutes
Rating
G
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