Playing for Keeps Page #2

Synopsis: George is a former professional soccer star who's moved to Virginia to be close to his ex-wife and son. He's broke, jobless, without a plan, and a constant source of disappointment to his son. When he takes over as his son's soccer coach, he has a new connection to the lad. He also gets the attention of three of the players' moms as well as the glad hand of a wealthy dad. His ex-wife's getting married, he has a lead on a sportscasting job, and he finds new ways to disappoint his son. Is there any way he can sort things out?
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Director(s): Gabriele Muccino
Production: FilmDistrict
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
27
Rotten Tomatoes:
3%
PG-13
Year:
2012
105 min
$13,099,786
Website
420 Views


First, they weren't Swedish.

Irish.

Secondly, they weren't med students,

they were nursing students.

Finally, they weren't even twins.

What?

No, they were triplets.

I could kick myself for not writing a book,

not that anybody would believe it.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Aw... Hey, ladies and gentlemen.

You all remember George Dryer?

How you doing?

What have you been up to?

You were doing some real estate

deal up in Canada or something?

What do you know about

Canada? Or real estate?

Well, it was vacation homes in Winnipeg.

I was just a spokesman, so...

And you had a sports bar, right?

Yeah, yeah, I had a bar.

You know, the economy.

Right, right.

Didn't work out.

Actually, I've been thinking

now about something you suggested.

Like sports-casting.

I made a demo.

I thought I would...

You know, I'd show it to you first.

No, I'll definitely

take a look at it. Heh.

They're always looking for someone

to replace me around here.

Chip, you're on.

Oh, sh*t. Uh...

Hey, look, put this on my desk, all right.

It belongs to my man here.

Listen, uh, take care, man.

All right, man.

Good to see you.

Always good to see you.

Stick around if you want.

Hey, man. How's it going?

I'm good, I'm good.

George Dryer, huh?

Yeah, back in the day that man

got more ass than a toilet seat.

Hang on, here we go.

All right, soccer fans,

big game going on today.

Joining us with a look at the matchups

in that clash is of course Chip Johnson.

Chip, what do you have?

When our beloved DC United faces off

with the Revolution this afternoon,

it's all gonna come down

to defense.

Unfortunately for us, Jerry, the

black and red have that in spades...

Coach, should we keep going?

That's good. Just keep

doing what you're doing.

Put your foot into it.

Kick it with your toes.

Just straight on.

Like I told you

a hundred times.

Hey, kiddo, give me the ball.

Just use your toes.

Okay, anybody want to know

how to shoot?

All right, any of you want to

score some goals this season?

Yeah.

Okay, go in the goal, okay?

So first of all you need to know

that you don't kick with your toe.

You plant your foot here

and you follow through.

On the laces, okay?

You gotta plant your left foot down

and follow through.

Whoa!

Who wants to learn how to do that?

Give him some encouragement.

Oh...

Left foot next to the ball, right

foot follows through. Come on.

Thattaboy, terrific.

We're learning how to shoot.

We're learning how to score.

Okay, here we are, here we go.

Yeah. Oh!

You just can't...

Okay, anybody else want to go?

Okay, who's gonna go?

You? Okay, on you go.

All right, there we go.

Home, sweet home.

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