The Winning Season

So here comes another movie which lacks the spirit of the basic theme. A clichéd in every sense, director James C. Strouse, though exerts all his wiles to retain the spirit and essence of the game, but fails to any magical effect on the audiences.

The movie goes through the same tried and tested formula of certain jaded ways to make a losing girls basketball team to win again. Sam Rockwell, plays the central character of the coach of an almost oblivious girls’ basketball team, is all set to make the team to get its due recognition, fighting with his biases of misogynistic behavior and drunken life. He comes across as the only carved out and neat actor of the movie.

The film almost portrays the same sort obsolete method of revoking team spirit amongst the girls who are too pompous to get into a collective sense of behavior. As far as the personal experience goes, each of the player as well as the coach learns and gains eventually. Rockwell reunites with her long lost daughter, on e of the girl realizes what real love is. Another girl regains the long lost respect of her team mates. And finally, they learn to work as a team.
Though, the movie definitely disappoints the audiences but still at certain moments it lifts up their faces.

The comic timing of some the characters are worth praising. Shareeka Epp did an excellent job. All the sequences which depict the basketball sequences were shot excellently, that’s where the cinematic genius of the movie lies. The clichéd story poses the greatest threat to the movie. Hopefully, Strouse gives a better performance next time!!!