Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 106'
Mike is a mediocre lawyer who coaches a high school wrestling team in his free time. When he discovers that Kyle, the grandson of one of his clients, is a gifted wrestler, he decides to put him on the team. But the boy is very closed and it takes Mike a while to win his confidence, thus discovering the cause of his difficulties. But all of Kyle’s hard-won serenity risks being compromised by the sudden reappearance of his mother, Cindy, who has just been released from a clinic where she was being treated for substance abuse. “Mike Flaherty is a decent, humorous, hard-working guy who just makes one bad decision – and the fact of the matter is that if he had really thought things through, he probably wouldn’t have done what he did. What interested me was how good people sometimes make very faulty decisions and have to find a way to live with them in the end. That became the compelling through-line of the story. What started as a broad sports comedy became more of a human comedy.”
Biography
film director
Thomas McCarthy
Tom McCarthy (NJ, USA, 1966) began acting for TV and film in the 1990s, and had parts in Meet the Parents by Jay Roach (2000), Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney (2005), Syriana by Stephen Gaghan (2005) and Flags of Our Fathers by Clint Eastwood (2006). In 2008, he was also in the final season of the series The Wire, produced and broadcast by HBO, while in recent years he has appeared in films like The Lovely Bones by Peter Jackson (2009) and Little Fockers by Paul Weitz (2010). He debuted as a director in 2003 with The Station Agent, which was presented at the Sundance Festival that same year and received an award from the BAFTA for best original screenplay. In 2007, his second film, The Visitor, received various awards, as well as an Oscar nomination for best actor for Richard Jenkins. Win Win is his third feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
The Station Agent (Station Agent, 2003), The Visitor (L’ospite inatteso, 2007), Win Win (Mosse vincenti, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Tom McCarthy
soggetto/story
Tom McCarthy, Joe Tiboni
fotografia/cinematography
Oliver Bokelberg
montaggio/film editing
Tom McArdle
scenografia/production design
John Paino
costumi/costume design
Melissa Toth
musica/music
Lyle Workman
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Paul Giamatti (Mike Flaherty), Amy Ryan (Jackie Flaherty), Bobby Cannavale (Terry Delfino), Jeffrey Tambor (Stephen Vigman), Burt Young (Leo Poplar), Melanie Lynskey (Cindy), Alex Shaffer (Kyle), Margo Martindale (Eleanor)
produttori/producers
Mary Jane Skalski, Michael London, Lisa Maria Falcone, Tom McCarthy
produzione/production
Groundswell, Next Wednesday
coproduttore/coproducer
Jacqueline Brogan
distribuzione/distribution
20th Century Fox Italia
vendita all’estero/world sales
Fox Searchlight Pictures
