There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
From Rachel Griffiths
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
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