Trouble with the Curve is a 2012 American sports drama film directed by Robert Lorenz and starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Matthew Lillard, and John Goodman.

[5] A year after its release, the film became the subject of a plagiarism lawsuit by a producer alleging that his former partner had taken an unfinished script after a dispute and conspired with his agent and Warner Bros. to present it as the work of a relative unknown.

His boss and friend, Pete Klein, does not want to let him go, but must contend with ambitious junior executive Phillip Sanderson, who is trying to position himself to fill the post of general manager, and feels Gus is an obstacle to his ambition.

Ahead of the upcoming MLB Draft, Gus is assigned to review a top prospect, egotistical North Carolina high schooler Bo Gentry.

He doubles down by staking his career on the decision, leading Braves general manager Vince to draft Gentry as the club's first pick.

The next day Johnny angrily confronts Gus and Mickey, believing they only told him not to recommend Gentry in order to allow the Braves to draft him instead.

Preparing to leave, Mickey observes a young man, Rigoberto Sanchez, throwing pitches with his younger brother and realizes his talent from the sound of the ball hitting the glove.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Though predictable and somewhat dramatically underwhelming, Trouble with the Curve benefits from Clint Eastwood's grizzled charisma and his easy chemistry with a charming Amy Adams.

In January 2013, the film was nominated for Best Intergenerational Story at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, but lost to Silver Linings Playbook.

Warner responded with a letter to Brooks' lawyer threatening serious legal actions in response if he did not withdraw the "reckless and false" complaint within a week.

Brooks' lawyer questioned its authenticity to The New York Times suggesting that it bore signs of fabrication, such as the anachronistic use of wireless laptops,[15] and that there was no record of it having been registered with the Writers Guild of America, a common practice for screenwriters establishing authorship of their work before getting a production company interested.

[18] In February 2014 Dale S. Fischer, the judge hearing the case, granted the motion, saying that Brooks had overstated the similarities between the two scripts and that, even if he hadn't, "the idea of a father-daughter baseball story is not protectable as a matter of copyright law.