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May 19, 2023 · Walt Disney Pictures' 2002 movie "The Rookie," in which Dennis Quaid plays Jim Morris, is based on a true story. The baseball movie went on to earn the fourth-highest box office totals of...
Summaries. A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs. Jim Morris is a Texas high school chemistry teacher and coach of the school's baseball team.
Mar 29, 2002 · May 12, 2014. A true story about a coach who discovers that it's never too late for dreams to come true. Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury...
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Mar 29, 2002 · Based on a true story, high school coach Jim Morris lives his dream when he becomes the oldest rookie in the major leagues!
Sep 18, 2023 · An incredible story. A story so good that Walt Disney Pictures turned it into “The Rookie,” the 2002 film starring Dennis Quaid as Morris. It became the fourth-highest-grossing baseball movie of all-time. “So many times, movies based on a true story get a little stretched out to make it work,” Quaid tells MLB.com, 20 years later.
Mar 29, 2002 · Roger Ebert March 29, 2002. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "The Rookie" combines two reliable formulas: The Little Team That Goes to State, and the Old-Timer Who Realizes His Youthful Dream. When two genres approach exhaustion, sometimes it works if they prop each other up.
Mar 29, 2002 · The Rookie - Metacritic. Summary The extraordinary real-life story of Jim Morris (Quaid), who, twelve years after dropping out of minor league baseball because of an injury to his pitching arm, is inspired by the young men on the championship-winning high school team he coaches to fulfill his own dream and try out for a professional team. Drama.
