2011 · comedy · family · tv-movie
Best Player
Directed by Damon Santostefano1h 29m2011
After his parents decide to move to a retirement home in Florida, professional gamer Quincy “Q” Johnson (Jerry Trainor) must find a way to raise 175,000 dollars to buy his family home. After hearing about a tournament for the game “Black Hole” with a grand prize of 175,500 dollars, Quincy enters the tournament, only to be faced with a new challenge. An equally skilled gamer, named Chris Saunders “Prodigy” (Jeanette McCurdy), has become the one block in Quincy’s plan, defeating him at every turn. Quincy then teams-up with his friend Wendell (Amir Talai), to try and find ways to stop Chris from entering the tournament.
Our read: Best Player (2011) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · family · tv-movie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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