Million Dollar Arm (2014) on Netflix
PG20142h 4mBiographyDramaSport
Sports agent J. B. Bernstein's company is failing, so he stages a contest in India to turn cricket bowlers into baseball pitchers. Winners Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel fly to Los Angeles.
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Plot summary
J. B. Bernstein and his partner Ash Vasudevan run a small sports agency in Los Angeles that has run out of clients. His clients have retired, and he cannot sign NFL star Popo Vanuatu. He proposes a contest in India, Million Dollar Arm, to find two cricket bowlers who can be trained as pitchers, and gets Mr. Chang to fund it by promising a major league tryout within a year. Pitching coach Tom House doubts baseball can be learned from cricket bowling but takes the job. In Mumbai, businessman Vivek guides J. B. and Amit Rohan serves as his interpreter. Veteran scout Ray Poitevint helps him hold tryouts in several cities, and Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel come out on top, leaving their families for the United States.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In 2008 the television sports producers and brothers Neil and Michael Mandt began documenting the training and tryouts that Singh and Patel were undergoing at the USC campus, and used their own footage to create a nine-minute trailer as a presentation piece for a projected movie about the two players.
SPOILER
An epilogue reveals footage of the real Rinku and Dinesh, who were offered contracts by the Pirates, becoming the first Indian athletes signed by a major American sports league.
