Million Dollar Arm “Thousand Dollar Movie”

(“Thousand Dollar Movie”)

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

MILLION DOLLAR ARM is a comedy about sports, and it is about an underdog who eventually achieves success.

It is also a Disney movie, and so you might think it could practically write itself, but it didn’t, because it is based on a true story.

Jon Hamm plays JB Bernstein, a sports agent who along with his partner, Aash, have been on their own for three years, and they can’t manage to sign a new client.

In fact, all their good clients are retired.

At the beginning of the movie, JB is trying to sign a professional football player named Popo, but Popo says that he wants a $1 million bonus in cash up front.

JB tells Popo, “What? I can’t do that. No one can do that.”

The agency’s situation is so bad that Aash says he doesn’t think he can keep doing it.

So, one night JB is bored and flipping through the television channels when he comes across a cricket match and “Britain’s got Talent,” in which Susan Boyle amazed Great Britain with her singing.

JB gets the idea of combining the two concepts and that leads him to going to India and conducting a talent competition in the hopes of finding a cricket player who can be trained to pitch a baseball and eventually become a professional baseball player in the United States.

And the first half of the movie is about JB in India trying to find two pitchers to bring back to the U.S. to be trained and be good enough to get a tryout with a professional baseball team through the competition he created called “Million Dollar Arm,” promising $1 million to whoever wins and succeeds.

So, the second half of the movie is about the two leading contenders, Rinku and Dinesh, being trained in Los Angeles in a sport they know nothing about.

You see, JB believes that if he is successful, he will have created a market with a billion new fans of American baseball in India rooting for their homeboy.

Alan Arkin is also in the movie playing the same cranky oldtimer that he seems to always play these days, and Lake Bell is also in it as a potential love interest for JB.

MILLION DOLLAR ARM is not much more than just a thousand dollar movie.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”