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# Movie Review: Trouble With the Curve (2012)
- URL: https://www.bensmovieguide.com/trouble-with-the-curve-2012/
- Published: 2026-09-28T16:34:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T22:34:43.000Z
- Description: Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams turn an old-school baseball story into something more—a father-daughter drama about aging, regret and second chances.
- Author: Ben
- Tags: #title-only, #Eyebrow: Baseball is Just the Backdrop, Title: Trouble With the Curve (2012), Year: 2012

**There are baseball movies about winning championships. This isn’t really one of them.**

*Trouble With the Curve* is more about an aging father, the daughter he’s kept at arm’s length, and whether either one of them can figure out how to reconnect.

Baseball just happens to be where they have to do it.

### WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Clint Eastwood plays Gus Lobel, an old-school Atlanta Braves scout who has spent decades evaluating players by watching them, listening to them and trusting his instincts.

The problem is that his eyesight is beginning to fail, and the organization is starting to wonder whether the game has passed him by. When Gus is sent to evaluate one of the country’s top prospects, his daughter Mickey, played by Amy Adams, reluctantly joins him.

Their relationship is complicated. Gus loves his daughter, but he has never been particularly good at showing it, and Mickey has carried that distance with her into adulthood.

Justin Timberlake plays Johnny Flanagan, a former player now working as a scout himself. He’s a good addition to the Eastwood-Adams chemistry—lighter, more relaxed and just charming enough to keep the movie from becoming too heavy.

### WHO IT’S FOR

This is for people who like **Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, baseball movies and slower, character-driven dramas**.

It’s predictable, and some of the old-school-baseball-versus-modern-analytics material is pretty broad, but Eastwood and Adams make the relationship work.

You don’t watch *Trouble With the Curve* because you don’t know where it’s going.

You watch because spending a couple of hours getting there with these characters is pretty enjoyable.

💡

Baseball is the setting. The relationship between Eastwood and Adams is the reason to watch.

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