The Scout (1994)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 18
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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 4
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After several weeks filming The Scout in the late 1970s, star Peter Falk and director Howard Zieff abandoned the project. Two decades later, writer Andrew Bergman gave his original script to Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson, who polished it as a vehicle for Brooks and director Michael Ritchie. Brooks stars as Al Percolo, a talent scout for the New York Yankees whose latest recruit (Michael Rapaport) has just vomited on the field and fled. Sent to Mexico as punishment by his boss (Lane Smith),
Sep 30, 1994 Wide
Oct 2, 2001
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Albert Brooks
Al Percolo -
Brendan Fraser
Steve Nebraska -
Dianne Wiest
Doctor H. Aaron -
Lane Smith
Ron Wilson -
Anne Twomey
Jennifer -
Michael Rapaport
Tommy Lacy -
Tony Bennett
Himself -
John Capodice
Caruso -
Josh Clark
Reporter -
Jose Luis Cortes
Mexican Desk Clerk -
Steve Eastin
Clubhouse Manager -
Roy Firestone
Himself -
Garfield
Stan -
Steve Garvey
Himself -
Keith Hernandez
Himself -
John LaMotta
Elevator Guard -
Jordan Lage
Reporter -
Larry Loonin
Radar Gun Man -
Tim McCarver
Himself -
Harsh Nayyar
Cab Driver -
Gabriel Pingarron
Mexican Umpire -
Jack Rader
Mr. Lacy -
Marcia Rodd
Mrs. Lacy -
Ozzie Smith
Himself -
Charlie Stavola
Doorman -
Lee Weaver
Ben -
Chuck Waters
Photographer -
Steven M. Porter
Reporter -
Frank Slaten
College Umpire -
John B. Sterling
Himself -
Barry Shabaka Henley
McDermott -
George Steinbrenner
Himself -
Brett Rickaby
George's Assistant -
Bruce Wright
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (18) | DVD (11)
The Scout is the best comedy-fantasy about baseball ever made, which goes to show that if Hollywood keeps trying, eventually someone will get it right.
Top CriticEven with the modest allure of Albert Brooks in what amounts to a mainstream effort, The Scout should get a quick trip to the showers.
The Scout was directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Mr. Brooks and Monica Johnson from a script written by Andrew Bergman years ago. It's probably not all that valuable to wonder how so many talented people went so wrong.
Rarely does a movie start high and go downhill so fast. It's as if the filmmakers progressively lost their nerve with every additional scene.
A genuine -- and immensely enjoyable -- curiosity.
It's been a long time since there's been a good baseball movie. The Scout makes you wonder if there's ever going to be one again.
An amusing comic premise, mixing baseball and psychiatry, gets lost along the way in a film that displays much evidence of post-production tampering.
Brooks is fun, nothing else in the movie is.
This is the laziest piece of work in the fall big-screen lineup so far.
Having sat through many a Fraser film, I am constantly amazed that there is nothing this boy can't do. Well, except act his way out of a paper bag.
Baseball fans will hate The Scout because it makes a mockery of the game. Not quite as badly as Ed, which stars a monkey as the star pitcher, but close. Non-baseball fans will hate it because it's not funny.
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