Review of The Winning Season (2009) by Avid C — 13 Nov 2012

Heartfelt movie without any crap. It start with your usual teen sport movie, with an underdog team and an ex-star coach. The coach is a sorry ass human being, though, and the team gets its wins by believably really working at it.

No magic, no gimmicks, no tricks. The secret to the movie is in the script. They don't become superstar, everything is believable, and you finally get attached to all the characters, with their flaws and quirks.

They do get to learn some lessons, it's true, but it's not spoon fed to the audience, nor is it instantaneous, or in contradiction to the characters. The mechanics of the movie are good and transparent, a nice A story, with a B story and even a C story.

A complete movie that will tug tears, give you a number of laughs, and entertain you, and all of that without excess. See it.