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Les Winners

Original title: Win Win
  • 2011
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
55K
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Paul Giamatti and Alex Shaffer in Les Winners (2011)
In order to support his family, attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti) moonlights as a high school wrestling coach and assumes the guardianship on an elderly client (albeit not in the most honest fashion). Flaherty's fortunes begin to shine when the man's runaway grandson materializes, until the boy's mother appears, fresh from rehab, flat broke, and looking for an opportunity.
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A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.

  • Director
    • Tom McCarthy
  • Writers
    • Tom McCarthy
    • Joe Tiboni
  • Stars
    • Paul Giamatti
    • Amy Ryan
    • Jeffrey Tambor
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    55K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Tom McCarthy
    • Writers
      • Tom McCarthy
      • Joe Tiboni
    • Stars
      • Paul Giamatti
      • Amy Ryan
      • Jeffrey Tambor
    • 125User reviews
    • 227Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 22 nominations

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    "Beat the Crap Out of Her" from Win Win
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    Win Win: Break It Up
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    Win Win: Jbj
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    Win Win: Eminem
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    Win Win: Beat The Crap
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    Win Win: Heart Attack
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    Win Win: Give Me A Slap
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    Paul Giamatti and Tom McCarthy in Les Winners (2011)
    Paul Giamatti and Alex Shaffer in Les Winners (2011)
    Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Clare Foley, and Sophie Kindred in Les Winners (2011)
    Tom McCarthy in Les Winners (2011)
    Paul Giamatti and Alex Shaffer in Les Winners (2011)
    Amy Ryan, Clare Foley, and Penelope Kindred in Les Winners (2011)
    Paul Giamatti and Alex Shaffer in Les Winners (2011)
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    Top cast

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    Paul Giamatti
    Paul Giamatti
    • Mike Flaherty
    Amy Ryan
    Amy Ryan
    • Jackie Flaherty
    Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Tambor
    • Stephen Vigman
    Bobby Cannavale
    Bobby Cannavale
    • Terry Delfino
    Burt Young
    Burt Young
    • Leo Poplar
    Melanie Lynskey
    Melanie Lynskey
    • Cindy
    Alex Shaffer
    Alex Shaffer
    • Kyle
    Margo Martindale
    Margo Martindale
    • Eleanor
    David Thompson
    David Thompson
    • Stemler
    Mike Diliello
    • Jimmy Reed
    Nina Arianda
    Nina Arianda
    • Shelly
    Marcia Haufrecht
    Marcia Haufrecht
    • Gina Flaherty
    Sharon Wilkins
    Sharon Wilkins
    • Judge Lee
    Clare Foley
    Clare Foley
    • Abby
    Penelope Kindred
    • Stella
    Sophie Kindred
    • Stella
    Tim Ransom
    Tim Ransom
    • Stuart Thatcher
    Nicholas Somers
    • BHS Coach
    • Director
      • Tom McCarthy
    • Writers
      • Tom McCarthy
      • Joe Tiboni
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Alex Shaffer was indeed the New Jersey state high school wrestling champion the year before the film was made. However, he had to quit the sport due to a back injury.
    • Goofs
      When the team is on the bus heading to a match, they are going from their school in NJ to another school in NJ. However, the shot of the road they are driving down is in Rockville Centre, Long Island, NY (one of the admitted locations where the movie was filmed). In traveling from one school in NJ to another school in NJ, there would be absolutely no reason to pass through LI.
    • Quotes

      Mike Flaherty: [to the wrestling team] Now, did you all see what Kyle did the other day? He exploded up, right? Kyle, show the guys what you did.

      Kyle: It's kind of my own thing.

      Mike Flaherty: Well, can you share it with us?

      Kyle: But it's not even a move or anything.

      Mike Flaherty: It's okay.

      Kyle: All right. Well, I just tell myself that the guy on top's tryin' to take my head and shove it under water and kill me, and if I don't wanna die on bottom, I have to do whatever the fuck it takes to get out.

      Stephen Vigman: [breaking a stunned silence] Okay. So the move is "Whatever the fuck it takes." Let's go. Let's work on it.

      Terry Delfino: [chiming in forcefully as if knowledgeable] WHATEVER THE FUCK IT TAKES! LET'S GO, GENTLEMEN. UP!

    • Connections
      Featured in Maltin on Movies: Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Runaway
      Written by Bryan Crouch, Joe Barlow, Drew Dockrill, Chad Richardson, Darryl Romphf and Alex Aligizakis

      Performed by Hail the Villain

      Courtesy of Roadrunner Records and Warner Music Canada

    User reviews125

    Review
    Review
    Featured review
    8/10
    Intriguing dilemmas and a splash of humour
    The story-line of Win Win brings difficult and realistic moral issues before us, which engage our interest and challenge our sympathies. But the film is not a ponderous work of moral theory, fortunately. Instead, it has many humorous moments which keep the tone quite light, even as the film raises some darker problems.

    The first dilemma concerns the subterfuge that lawyer Mike Flaherty (Paul Giametti) employs to win the maintenance award for looking after his elderly client Leo who suffers from Alzheimers disease. The dilemma is not so much his (he needs the money too badly and he has a family to provide for), as ours - should we sympathise or not? Mike is a lawyer, yet he deceives the court and thus breaks the law. Yet, at the same time, Leo does not really lose out because the home that Mike puts him in is very comfortable. In a way, Mike's deceit is a win-win solution that solves Mike's financial problems and also provides proper care for Leo. But surely deceit cannot be condoned? Or can it? While we are still dealing with that issue, an entirely different one looms up and takes over the story. Leo's grand-son arrives, looking for his grand-father, Leo, who is now in the care home. Not only does this plot development add a lot of tension (because Mike's deceit is in danger of being exposed), it also adds further complications on the moral front. The first is, should Mike tell Kyle the truth, or is it better to try and help Kyle personally while leaving him in the dark? Should we really expect Mike to confess, when the result will be disastrous for so many people and achieve very little, apart from establishing the truth about Leo's transfer to the care home? Once again, we are just beginning to settle one problem when another arrives to add further complications, this time in the shape of Kyle's mother, Leo's daughter, who has never shown any interest in her father, but now shows a mercenary interest in his state of dependency.

    I really enjoyed this film. There is a lightness in the telling of the story, which makes the whole experience a pleasure, but it is a story with some difficult issues to set before us, issues such as the care of the elderly and the rights of birth-parents over foster-parents, which give us food for thought. Above all, however, the film is very well acted and the characters are brought to life very effectively, persuading us of the reality of the issues which it raises, but also coaxing us to temper our judgment of our fellow human beings. The film reminds us that life is rarely as clear-cut as our stern guilty-or-innocent judgments would require.
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    • Jun 8, 2011

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 31, 2011 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Fox Searchlight (United States)
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Win Win
    • Filming locations
      • Locust Valley, Long Island, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Searchlight Pictures
      • Everest Entertainment
      • Groundswell Productions
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $10,179,275
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $150,362
      • Mar 20, 2011
    • Gross worldwide
      • $11,789,613
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
      • SDDS
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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