The Rookie

film by Hancock [2002]

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Cox

  • Brian Cox
    In Brian Cox: Career

    …Quaid) in the sports drama The Rookie (2002). Cox played the villainous colonel William Stryker in the superhero film X2: X-Men United in 2003, and he portrayed the wealthy father-in-law of a former professional tennis player in director Woody Allen’s psychological thriller Match Point (2005). Cox’s career continued to gain…

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Quaid

  • Dennis Quaid
    In Dennis Quaid: Comeback: The Parent Trap, The Rookie, and Reagan

    …Quaid starred in the well-received The Rookie, playing a real high school teacher and baseball coach who, at age 35, tried out for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and had a brief Major League Baseball career. Also in 2002 Quaid earned critical acclaim for his performance in Todd Haynes’s Far…

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