SummaryDisheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything...
SummaryDisheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything...
Confident enough to simply go with the exotica of average middle-class Americans who are well-intentioned, flawed, and dog-paddling like crazy to keep their heads above water. There's nothing at all unusual about them, and that's unusual.
This movie is about real people dealing with real life issues and dilemnas. Nothing is sugar coated, which is so refreshing. I really liked this film. The characters are all believable & the acting was perfect.
I honestly can't imagine how someone could dislike this film. It is funny, warm, weird, and overall just incredibly enjoyable. Every character seems genuine and authentic, which is a testament to both the superb cast and the incredibly smart and witty script. Easily the best film of the first quarter of 2011.
It's a bit less good than McCarthy's earlier films -- Jeffrey Tambor has a large, superfluous role that abruptly disappears, and Ryan, a fine actress, makes a less than entirely convincing spouse for Giamatti. This one is a crowd-pleaser nonetheless.
If you are able to see this film, do it. New comer Alex Shaffer acting is quite funny, and Giamati is great as always. By the end of the movie you will feel like you just made some friends that you will never see again.
To Wake Up Without Any Hit.
Win Win
McCarthy's grant that comes along with family's business that is to be dealt with, has too much amount to fulfill your needs. This surprising delightful family drama has the heart in its right place, no matter how much obliged it is to the semantics of the structure or how mechanically complex it grows, McCarthy's schemes to keep a broad smile on your face throughout the journey is an appreciative and successful job. With light humor and breezier conversations, it keeps us at ease with warm cozy chemistry of the characters.
McCarthy's world never takes charge, if there is an option directing towards the south it cannot ignore it and this is his ultimate weapon, for even at its peak there is a sense of maturity or immaturity of the characters to keep a socially pleasant expressions on the face and move accordingly. Addition to that, the unexpected turns and revelations in its trajectory is bewildering enough to bite your nails. The stakes might be immensely high, yet its projection of these imprinted plans, no matter how much less-cinematic is subtle enough to poke you off the edge, there is no need for any push.
Giamatti in his middle aged and no so likeable character, is to be rooted for, from his inadequacy to smile or to clear out his intentions, he is a force to be reckoned with. And challenging him equally, lies Ryan's beautiful performance, as an overprotective mother and a fellow companion of Giamatti, she balance the film on a safer scale. The supporting cast like Tambor, Cannavale, Young and Shaffer are holding onto their parts convincingly. Win Win is a big win as a family drama pulsating across a breathtaking match and McCarthy's bluff of not delivering the last end of the track leaves you a bit wiser in the end.
Portrayed by many as a funny film, this is a otherwise indifferent drama graced with the exceptional charisma of Paul Giamatti, who holds it together elequantly enough to feel like a win win proposition for a DVD night at home.
I am so tired of seeing Paul Giamatti play the husband of lovely talented women. This must be male wish fulfillment casting. Although well acted, this is a very boring, predictable film, sentimental film. It would play much better on TV.
I am writing this review because this is the worst movie I have seen in months and I am one of Giamatti's biggest fans so it pains me to say so. To be fair, I went into this movie expecting it to be funny... or at least contain a bit of dark humor and what I got was melo-drama capital C, capital R, capital A, capital P. Lastly, bethesdabob wrote "This movie is ok--realistic and plausible, but it certainly doesn't deserve stellar reviews." and then gave it a 10 out of 10. Dementia much?