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The Scout

1994 · 101 min

A gentle, offbeat comedy that balances baseball fantasy with a tender look at broken people finding connection.

Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Genres
Comedy
Tagline
He was praying for a miracle. What he got was Steve Nebraska.
Overview
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.

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Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Genres
Comedy
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • sport
  • redemption
  • trauma
  • found family
  • ambition
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Michael Ritchie
Written by
Albert Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Monica Johnson
Starring
Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest, Anne Twomey, Lane Smith, Michael Rapaport, Barry Shabaka Henley, John Capodice
Music
Bill Conti
Cinematography
László Kovács
Runtime
101 min
Country
United States of America, Mexico
Languages
Italian, English

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