Hamm is sports agent JB Bernstein, a success in his field until he finds the business changing on him, and that he can't quite keep up. His career now hanging in the balance, he concocts a scheme to find baseball’s next great pitching ace by looking into the previously untapped world of cricket. Looking to find a young cricket pitcher he can turn into a major league baseball star, JB and travels to India with a retired baseball scout, Ray Poitevint (Alan Arkin), to produce a reality show competition called “The Million Dollar Arm" and locate his last chance to save his career. When two 18-year olds, Dinesh (Madhur Mittal) and Rinku (Suraj Sharma), show potential for stardom, JB whisks them off to the US so that training can begin. Will they make it? Will he? It's all a matter of time.
The clip that Disney have released in the build up to Million Dollar Arm's arrival centres around the JB and his neighbour Brenda (Lake Bell), who are friends but seem to be purposely avoiding complicating that status. However, it is obvious that there is some degree of attraction there. Here, they stand in the Brenda's kitchen, talking about family, specifically her abundance of and his lack of. Family is something they've never really discussed, mostly from his side not being too sure how talk about such things. It would then seem that this is where some of his difficulty in relating in a manner outside of a professional context comes from. And in the process of this talking, the pair come to address that line in their relationship, which has remained a no-go for each of them. But maybe it's time to complicate things a little.
On some level, I don't particularly like to see clips like this ahead of the viewing. Not because it gives away any massive portion of plot, but because it gives a glimpse into a turn in the characters that would be much better served coming after we've established a better sense of who they are and what they are to each other. That said, the trailer for the Million Dollar Armis one that doesn't so much show a card as it does tip the entire hand. The whole story follows a very familiar structure, which leaves very little in which to find a surprise. In instances like that, it's nice if they try and give you something, anything, with which you can find some degree of involvement. This clip rather takes something away from that. Yes, the trailer already showed it, and yes, you probably would have seen it coming anyway, but isn't it a bit better when they keep something like this for the actual viewing?