Wednesday Movie Night: Win Win (2011)

Thomas McCarthy has been a writer for some of the more touching stories you've seen brought to the screen like Up. Now he's not only writing, but also directing his movies as well. Win Win is a solid movie from the screenwriter that shows the same type of emotion he is capable of offering, and the relationship between older and younger men as well. Win Win is solid, but still there is something that lacks in it resonating long after. Maybe it's just too feel good? Regardless, it is a very solid written, and well acted movie.

Summary: Mike is a struggling lawyer who also volunteer coaches a wrestling team. One of the clients he is defending is a rich man who pays out around $1500 a month to his caretaker. Mike agrees to be his guardian to keep the state from taking over guardianship, and agrees that in being his guardian he will make arrangements for him to continue to live in his home. Instead Mike double crosses the guy, and sends him to a nursing home, so he can instead use the $1500 a month to keep his practice alive, and his family supported. The grandson of the man he is now stealing from though arrives to live with with his grandfather though complicating his plans.