English Movie Review Million Dollar Arm - Cast & Crew

An American actress, director, and writer, Lake Bell is best known for her roles in Boston Legal, a television series, What Happens in Vegas, No Strings Attached and Million Dollar Arm, among many others. She was born in New York City. Her mother, Robin Bell, who is a Protestant, is the owner of Robin Bell Design in New York and her father, who is Jewish, is a real estate developer. She studied at The Chapin School in New York and Westminster School in Connecticut. She attended Saint Edwards School while she lived in Florida. She also attended Skidmore College in New York before she transferred to Rose Buford College, London. She acted in several plays there. Lake started her career in 2002 with the film called Speakeasy. In 2003, her first important role came along. She appeared in I Love Your Work, a psychological thriller, War Stories, a television film and Miss Match, a comedy-drama. She was featured in Slammed, a wrestling film and in The Practice, a television series. \

Craig Gillespie is an Australian film and television advertisement director. He started his career with the movie ‘Mr. Woodcock'. He is best known for the work in movies the Fright Night remake and Lars and the Real Girl. He was born and brought up in the city of Sydney. At the age of nineteen, he moved to New York City for his studies in graphic designing, advertising, and illustration at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He became interested in filmmaking at the time of his twenties when one of his friends was aspiring to become a director and encouraged even Craig to try his hands in filmmaking. Initially, he started working as a commercial director along with cinematographers Rodrigo Prieto and Adam Kimmel. He worked for fifteen years and used to change advertising agencies often. In the span of five years, he had worked in six advertising agencies. He debuted as a film director with the movie ‘Mr. Woodcock’ in 2007. But he left the project as there were many scenes which were re-written and received a bad screening test. He was replaced by David Dobkin as the director of the movie. His next project was ‘Lars and the Real Girl,’ for which he had been scripting since four years. But the theme of the movie as a man falling in love with a sex doll. The movie starred Paul Schneider, Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Kelli Garner and Emily Mortimer in the lead roles. He had directed many episodes for many television series. He had directed for series like the ‘Pilot.’ He shot the first series of The United States of Tara by Diablo Cody and Steven Spielberg.

Suraj Sharma is an Indian actor. Suraj made his first appearance on the screen with the famous 'Life of Pi' movie in 2012. He played the main role in the film. Ang Lee had given the direction for 'Life of Pi' and the movie was based on the reference of a novel of the identical name. Later he appeared in 'Million Dollar Arm,' 'Umrika' and is now to appear in 'Burn Your Maps' which is in the stage of post-production. He has even been a part of the television series Homeland.

Alan Arkin is a multidimensional personality born on the 26th of March 1934. He is an Academy Award Winning American Actor. But he has conquered not only the field of acting but also Directing, Singing, Comedy and Music. He has his command over various fields of talent. He is considered to be a Perfectionist. He has entertained his audience in the film industry for nearly 60 years now. He was born in Brooklyn New York City. Alan Arkin was passionate about Acting since the age of 10.He used to take lessons and managed to win various scholarships in the school of drama for his undoubted skills. Not only acting but also singing had its root in Alan Arkin. He formed his music group with two of his friends named TARRIERS in which he struck the folk music with vocal chords as well as the guitar chords.

Madhur Mittal began a new phase of his career in 2008 by playing the role of Salim Malik in the film Slumdog Millionaire. The film received huge appreciation and fetched him the Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding performance. He got a break in King Khan's (Shah Rukh Khan) project ’One Two Ka Four’ and Salman Khan's ‘Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaye’. Madhur was born in Taj Mahal city (Agra) on January 20, 1987. He then participated in a dance competition for a TV show ‘ Boogie Woogie’ and had won. He was just a kid of 7 years to participate and win the completion.

Born on March 5, 1966, in Bombay, Aasif Mandvi started moving around the world from a very early age. At the age of one, his father, Hakim, shifted his family to Bradford, England, where he got a job as a textiles researcher at Bradford University.

Bill Paxton was one of the well-known and renowned actors and directors in America. Bill was born on the 17th of May in the year 1955. His place of birth is Fort Worth, Texas. Bill was born to his parents John Lane Paxton and Mary Lou. Paxton has done his graduation from Arlington Heights High School, Fort Worth, in the year 1973. Later, he attended Richmond College in England. He tried to join a film school in southern California, however, got rejected. He began with his career by working for minor roles such as The Terminator in 1984 and Streets of Fire. Bill, along with his friend Andrew Todd Rosentha collaborated to form a musical band, Martini Ranch, in the year 1982.