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erik-larsgaard
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Playing for Keeps (2012)
Review with small spoilers of the plot.
Playing For Keeps.
A former big league soccer player who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team as a way to get his life together ans spend time with his son. he is very welcome at his job, specially by the housewives in the town. at his free time he records himself as a demo for a sports caster. he is met with the aftermath of leaving his family and not learning how to be a parent.
this movie gives you allot more than just this description, a classic romantic comedy. but a very good version of the recipe. i was certainly entertained.
The parts that i personally liked: it was easy to follow Georges story, and the movies "mood-swings" was taken as given, accordingly to him.
i felt that there was a good chemistry between the actors.
i liked the feel good vibes that the movie gave.
The parts i didn't like:
i think joke placements were a little off. like the director himself was not willing to go a hundred percent for the fact that the joke was funny. and than with rushing the lines, ruined some of the jokes. this can give a feeling that it is more real as well, i just don't know what the director was going for.
its fair enough that things are a Cliché for a reason, but the way things happened in the ending was not perfect. I'm not saying it should have been completely different, but there could have been some parts that made it its own.
i read that the movie and Jessica Biel was nominated for worst supporting actress. that's just a simple "hate crime". just because she doesn't play a big part in the movie.i think she is there to illustrate important to George, and she did a good job at that.
Ultimately: i think this is a movie where most of all the right things are there, just maybe not utilized in the perfect way. the story is worth mentioning because it was a very good story.
i would give this movie a 7 out of 10, because the plot and the acting carried the parts that may have been missing or in my mind done a little wrong. its not a "BIG Hollywood movie" and it doesn't try to be. there are some big stars indeed, but that doesn't mean they are trying to get movie of the year or something.