2011 · comedy · drama
Win Win (2011)
Directed by Tom McCarthy1h 46m2011
When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother retrieves him.
Our read: Win Win (2011) (2011) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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