Review of The Winning Season (2009) by Damian A — 19 Aug 2011

I really enjoyed this movie. It has somewhat of a predictable plot, but it is both mooving and hilarious. I love Sam Rockwell, and he plays a busboy turned HS girls basketball coach who really knows nothing about girls or women (his relationship with his ex-wife and daughter are poor) and he's a drunk.

However, he grows to love the girls and the bus driver who he gets to be somewhat of a side coach, and the story is pretty fantastic. Rockwell is so underrated it makes me sad. Shareeka Epps is in this, who was also in Half Nelson, where Ryan Gosling plays a girls basketball coach also (addicted to crack).

I put that on the tv right after this movie, they're similar and compliment each other (but Half Nelson isn't a comedy, more of a bummer).