Affleck plays a depressed drinker whose life is rescued by becoming a
basketball coach in this flat, uninspired fable
A clunking underdog/redemption sports movie with a horribly perfunctory and unconvincing script, and a ponderous, half-awake performance from the bearded and stolid
Ben Affleck.
He plays Jack, a lonely guy whose marriage has failed, owing to a family tragedy; now he works on a building site and drinks himself to a stupor all day every day. But then he gets a call from Father Edward Devine (John Aylward), the shrewd, kindly headmaster of the Catholic school where Jack was once a basketball star: could Jack maybe come back and coach the school’s now floundering and ill-disciplined team?