Movie

The Rookie

“Sometimes dreams come back to life.”

★ 6.8(493)20022h 7m

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Director: John Lee Hancock
Release date: 2002-03-25
Runtime: 2h 7m
Language: English
Box office: $75,597,042
Budget: $20,000,000
Status: Released
Country: United States of America
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

About The Rookie

The Rookie is a 2002 movie in the Drama and Family genres, directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths and Jay Hernandez. It has a runtime of 2 hours 7 minutes. It holds an average rating of 6.8/10 from 493 viewers. Below you can see where to watch The Rookie in India — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

Jim Morris 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.