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Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete (Alex Shaffer) through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boys mother (Melanie Lynskey) shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything.
Win Win is an oddity. It’s a movie about teenagers who are — gasp — intelligent, thoughtful, polite, and better off than their adult counterparts. Teenagers are often written as social misfits or drugged-out losers, or pigeonholed into some clichd clique. It’s always nice to see a movie that treats adolescents with respect. Perhaps I’m just tired of the same old formulaic high school drama movies, or I still have the horrendous Twelve rattling around in my brain from last year’s fest. Watching Win Win gave me hope that filmmakers out there may continue to create thought-provoking, poignant adolescent characters.
Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) is a lawyer who’s struggling to pay all his bills. He runs his own practice, but the money isn’t exactly rolling in. He’s got a few clients he sees, a boiler that needs fixing, and absolutely no money to spare.
Mike’s client Leo Poplar is about to be declared incompetent by the state and forcefully put in a state care facility. In an act of desperation, Mike offers to become Leo’s guardian — partly because he’s a good guy, but also because Mike is able to pocket a $1,500 a month commission from Leo’s estate if he takes care of him. Mike, thinking of his family and his law practice, soon sticks Leo in an old folks’ home so they can take care of him and he can keep the money without doing any of the work. It’s one of those deals you know will come back to bite him.
When Mike heads over to Leo’s house to shut off the water he finds a kid sitting on the front porch. His name is Kyle, and he’s a thoughtful, intelligent teenage played brilliantly by newcomer Alex Shaffer.
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Sure, he’s got his problems, but Kyle is a deep-thinking, considerate soul who knows a lot more than he’s letting on. He escaped his druggie mother in Ohio and traveled to New Jersey to see his grandpa Leo. Kyle soon builds a relationship with Mike and his wife Jackie (Amy Ryan). Mike coaches the local high school wrestling team; they soon find out that Kyle is basically a wrestling prodigy.
The true treat here really is Shaffer’s performance. Yes, Giamatti is good, and Amy Ryan definitely has some great moments, but Shaffer steals the show. He rips it out from under the big-name stars like a wrestler hooking his opponent’s ankle. He’s an enigma on-screen, talking in low dulcet tones. Even though he acts aloof, you can tell there’s much brewing just under the surface. He’s standoffish and distant, but also infinitely likable. Sure, most of the movie is predictable, but Alex Shaffer (like Jennifer Lawrence of last year’s festival) has arrived. You won’t want to miss it.
Tom McCarthy, acclaimed writer/director of “The Visitor” and “The Station Agent,” explores the allegiances and bonds between unlikely characters with a lighter touch in his new film. Struggling attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, becomes legal guardian of an elderly client in an attempt to help keep his practice afloat. When the client’s teenage grandson runs away from home and shows up on his grandfather’s doorstep, Mike’s family.
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