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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3576801, member: 2504"] Win Win (2011) - Tom McCarthy directed "The Station Agent”, a film that my wife and I love and will watch anytime it shows up on television. With McCarthy directing “Win Win” and together with the participation with the always interesting Paul Giamatti in the lead role, it led me to this dramedy. Giamatti plays an attorney who is also a high school wrestling coach. Giamatti’s character is having some financial problems, and his wrestling team isn’t doing too well either. Giamatti seems to be a decent enough guy in this film, but due to his financial problems, he starts making some ethically challenged decisions in his decision to become the guardian of an elderly man who is in the early stages of dementia with no local family in order benefit financially from the elderly man’s medical problems. Things get more complicated for Giamatti when the elderly man’s grandson (who happens to be a very good high school wrestler) suddenly shows up from out of town looking for him. In this film there always seems to be another complication to the ethical equation hiding around the corner for Giamatti. This is a very solid and entertaining film, and it is well worth seeing. [/QUOTE]