Playing for Keeps Page #4

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
421 Views


It buys the uniforms, what not.

It's for the kids.

Wow, I'm sure everyone appreciates it.

Yeah, yeah.

And if you want to let Hunter play goalie, great.

Just keep it low-key.

Goalie it is.

Okay.

And I have a daughter.

Sings like Barbra Streisand.

She sings the national anthem

before a game, so much the better.

Just keep it...

Low-key.

You'll get to know me, I'm always

looking for something interesting.

Listen, well done, guys.

Hey, Denise.

Hey, Barb.

So who's the new soccer coach?

I don't know.

It's gotta be Stacie's ex,

the soccer player.

Soccer player?

Really.

So, what does he do now?

What do you need him to do?

That's not what I...

Through with men.

Oh, come on.

Hey, Mom.

Hey, sweetheart.

Hey, how was it?

It was good.

Great to see you, Barb.

Bye. You ready?

Mm-hm.

There is no end

To this story

You have 15 new messages.

Hi, coach, this is Aaron's mom.

Um, Coach Len had promised Aaron

he could play offense opening day

so hopefully none of that has changed.

Call me at 555-0162.

This is Jason's mom.

I just wanted to let you know

that Jason's been constipated

for over a week, and I just...

Sorry, I must have run out of time.

I just thought you may not want to

run him too hard

until he gets a chance to...

Hi, coach. Zack's mom.

Last year he was diagnosed with ADD

and took a vicious shot to the testicles

so maybe it's best to keep him

as far away from the ball as possible.

Coach? Hi, can I

talk to you for a second?

Yeah.

Oh, I, um... Well, I just...

it'll just take a second.

I wanted to know

how he was doing.

How who's doing?

Billy. I'm Billy's mom. You don't know that.

I'm Barb, hi.

Oh, hey, Barb.

Hi.

Um, so I know you watch him play. He's

not very good, but he tries so hard.

And so I've been practicing

with him, but I'm so spastic.

And I asked his dad to help too,

but he's just so busy,

which is kind of the story of our

marriage and now our divorce and, um...

Hey, Barb, he's doing just fine.

You think so?

Yeah, I do.

I mean a lot of these kids, they don't

have experience anyway, you know?

Look, if you, need me to give him some

extra help then I'm happy to... I don't...

Why are you crying?

I know, I'm sorry.

Okay, thank you. You're right.

It's gonna be fine.

Okay, okay.

Let's win this game.

Win this game, yeah. All right.

Oh, say can you see

By the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed

At the twilight's last gleaming

All right, folks,

so it's my first game as coach.

I want you to show me

what you've got, all right?

And I want you to go out there and show

those wankers what you got, all right?

Now I want you to be killers.

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