The Winning Season Page #3

Synopsis: Only connect. In a Hoosier town, boys' basketball is king. Bill is a former athlete and high-school coach who drinks too much, rarely sees his daughter from an old marriage, and busses tables at a local cafe. A friend who's now a principal offers him a job coaching girls; Bill takes it without much spirit. Six come to practice; one has a broken foot. They're awful in their first game, and Bill has to figure out, with help from Donna, the school's burly bus driver, if he actually can coach girls. They respond, and Bill suddenly has a family of sorts, just as his own relationship with his daughter worsens. With a winning season in reach, will Bill blow this chance?
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Director(s): Jim Strouse
Production: Roadside Attractions
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
2009
104 min
Website
154 Views


-lf she's done, l'm done.

Put that away. Keep jumping.

No cell phones.

Keep jumping. Let's go.

Let's go.

Come on, buttercup! Keep jumping!

Defense! Slide, slide, slide! Open.

Slide, slide, slide! Open.

-Defense!

-Defense!

-No, l said, ''Defense!''

-Defense!

Slide.

-Slide! Slide! Slide! Slide!

-Slide! Slide! Slide! Slide!

-Slide! Slide! Slide! Slide!

-Slide! Slide! Slide! Slide!

Check!

-Block!

-Block!

All right. That's all you got?

Yeah. Now you're ready to pick up the ball.

Lisa! Ball! Ball, ball, ball!

Over here! Over here!

What, are you blind? l'm open!

Yo!

What's going on? Is there a reason

you're not passing it to her?

All right, look,

l don't know what sh*t you girls have

between each other.

l don't give a sh*t.

l've got enough sh*t in my own life.

l've got a whole universe of sh*t.

l don't need any more of your sh*t,

so just keep your shirt off the court, okay?

You can't start drawing lines here.

Even if we did, you'd already

be on the wrong side anyways.

-What do you mean?

-Listen, l hate to tell you this,

but aside from Billie Jean King

and figure skaters,

nobody considers girls real athletes, so...

-Who's Billie Jean King?

-She's a golfer. And that's not true.

There are lots of people

who like girls' basketball.

Yeah? When's the last time you saw

a girls' basketball game

-playing in a sports bar?

-l can't go to sports bars.

Hey, look, if it makes you feel any better,

we're all on the wrong side.

l mean, the game really belongs

to the blacks, so...

-The men.

-You're an a**hole.

Big a**hole.

What'd you say?

-l said you're an a**hole.

-l'm an a**hole?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

Hey, let me tell you something.

What you girls know about basketball

could fit in a thimble.

Now, l can help you with basketball,

and believe me, you girls need help,

but l can't do dick about anything else.

You want to complain

about how unfair that is,

l can just leave right now.

You want to play basketball,

l can teach you how to do that.

Why don't you come get me

when you decide what you want to do?

You're not allowed to smoke in here.

Okay, look.

l'm just gonna be honest with you.

-l live with my grandmother.

-Yeah?

She watches Jeopardy every night

and goes to bed at 8:OO.

-So?

-l need something to do.

We all do.

So, you're gonna keep playing

or what? What?

No. Everyone wants to quit.

l can get them to change their minds.

Who says l want them

to change their minds?

-Come on.

-So do it. Change their minds.

Spit it out, sister. What do you want?

You just have to do something for me.

-Okay.

-Oh, my God.

lt's not my fault, it's the car.

The car is just, like...

Okay, easy on the speed bumps.

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Jim Strouse

James C. Strouse is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote the film Lonesome Jim, directed by Steve Buscemi. He wrote and made his directorial debut with Grace Is Gone starring John Cusack. more…

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