Million Dollar Arm is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J.B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition. Bernstein uses an unconventional recruitment strategy to get these talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Biography, Drama, Sport | 2h 4min | 16 May 2014 (USA)
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Director: Craig GillespieWriters: Tom McCarthyStars: Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Alan ArkinSummary: In 2008, J. B. Bernstein is a sports agent who finds his business being seriously outplayed by his deep-pocketed competitors. Inspired by reality shows and Indian cricket games on TV, Bernstein gets the bold idea of finding cricket players in India and training them to become pro baseball players in America. After a long search, Bernstein finds two talented, but non-cricket playing, youths, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. Together, Berthstein takes his prospects to Los Angeles where they find mastering a new sport in a foreign land a daunting challenge. As these boys struggle amid an alien culture, Bernstein must find a way to make their dream come true. In doing, Bernstein finds a deeper humanity to his work with growing friendships he never expected to have.
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