I don’t know enough about baseball to know whether the Clint Eastwood movie, “Trouble With the Curve” accurately portrayed the sport, but I do have faith in Eastwood. A friend who is highly knowledgeable said the treatment of the intricacies was correct. With that answered, the movie is one that deals with layered and timeless topics, yet without the darkness of many of Eastwood’s movies. A scene late in the movie between him and his daughter dips into an intense subject, but does not linger beyond what is needed to convey the point.

Instead, the movie blends the arrogance of youth that is ready to push aside the “individual who should know when to retire”, the talented individual who doesn’t recognize his limitations, the talented individual who might well have gone unnoticed except for a lucky break of timing, the talented individual whose dream was fleetingly achieved, then torn away, the complexities of family when tragedy strikes and emotional barriers are raised without realizing that has happened. It is a movie that stirs thought, that has enough twists so as not to be completely predictable, a movie that a couple should be able to enjoy together.