"Trouble with the Curve" is one of those paint-by-numbers movies, its every aspect—the characters, the plot trajectory, the meet-cutes and falling-outs—just another box to check off for someone who has taken Screenwriting 101 a little too seriously. The respective debuts of helmer Robert Lorenz (Clint Eastwood's longtime first assistant director) and writer Randy Brown, the film pairs the grizzled Eastwood (2008's "Gran Torino") with the chameleonic Amy Adams (2012's "The Master") for a sudsy father-daughter dramedy that takes nearly two hours to go exactly where most viewers will be expecting it to. Predictability isn't necessarily the death knell of cinema, but "Trouble with the Curve" is constantly only doing the bare minimum required to get by. It is aggressively pleasant and quaintly dull all at once, and eventually its blandness gets the best of it.
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