Clint Eastwood plays a broken-down, professional baseball scout in the last three months of his contract. His physical ailments are making it increasingly difficult for him to do his job the way he’s always done it—watching and evaluating high school ball players across the country for hours and days at a time. Amy Adams plays ...

The format of the movie, The Words, makes it intriguing, if not confusing at times. This is a story within a story, within a third story. It is also the title of a best-selling book written by an author, in obvious mid-life crisis, played by Dennis Quaid. Quaid examines his own ethical decisions through the ...