Rotten
In its final lap The Winning Season collapses into a sentimental farce that even Mr. Rockwell, now playing the clown, cannot redeem from cringe-inducing hokum.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
The Winning Season
It took a bunch of girls to make him man up.
2009 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Jim Strouse
Overview
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Rockwell does a typically fine job -- he's funny, touching and appalling -- as an alcoholic mess of a former high school basketball coach who's been reduced to washing dishes in a restaurant.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh
The story deepens through the clownish, heartbreaking exertions of Rockwell's gruff misfit, still working things out at the final buzzer.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
A predictable and cliched dramady.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
Forget AA; according to the movies, there's no better cure for alcoholism or depression than good ol' precollegiate athletic coaching.
Eric Hynes, Time Out New York
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