Win Win, writer/director Tom McCarthy’s third feature, is yet another affectionately observed human drama sprinkled with laughs and held together by an unerring interest in actors portraying the quiet, indelible moments that define a human life. It might lack the inspiration of his previous films, but its warmhearted humanitarianism is, as always, genuine and appealing.
Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) is a small-time lawyer and part-time high-school wrestling coach who needs some quick cash to keep his practice solvent. To that end, he makes the unethical choice to place his elderly client Leo (Burt Young) in a retirement home, and pocket the stipend a...
Released:
2011
Rated:
R
Length:
106 mins