Win Win

USA 2011, 106 minutes
Dir. Tom McCarthy
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama, Comedy / Independent

Feat. Paul Giamatti, Alex Shaffer, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor, Bobby Cannavale, Burt Young, Melanie Lynskey, Margo Martindale

“Written and directed with an impeccable feel for off-center human comedy at its funniest and most heartfelt. ”~Kenneth Turan, LA Times

Aroview: Recession comedy starring midlife-crisis poster boy Paul Giamatti, who here entangles his professional life as a struggling lawyer with his passionate pastime as a wrestling coach.

Much more whimsical than the director's much-loved THE VISITOR, this seems to be baiting a more commercial audience with its sporting youth genre tropes eclipsing the expected curmudgeonly comedy. Amiable enough but the plot is coincidence-heavy and its likeable characters are never really put through their paces.