Win Win

Win Win is a funny, touching drama that could have pressed all the easy emotional buttons but opts for a more realistic, unaffected approach. It's all the better for it because it leaves us in a mild state of reflection instead of feeling jerked around or manipulated. The writer and director is Thomas McCarthy, who specializes in straight, human stories without all the put-ons of melodrama. His films tend to be about the people we went to school with, the people we work with or the people who live down the street. In other words, they're about people like us.

In a suburban town in New Jersey, Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) is small-time attorney with an outspoken yet loving wife named Jackie (Amy Ryan) and two young daughters. Mike primarily counsels senior citizens, like an old man who claims his son stole his cat or another old man named Leo (Burt Young) who's in the early stages of dementia. The state deems Leo incapacitated, and to legally remain in his own house, he needs a caregiver. Otherwise, he'll be placed a nursing home.

Business has been slow at Mike's firm and when he realizes there's a $1,500 commission to act as Leo's caregiver, he takes the job on himself but still places Leo in the nursing home. He'll visit Leo from time to time, but most of the care giving will be administered by the nursing home.

It's a shifty thing Mike is doing but we understand given his circumstances. He's not making enough money as a lawyer and his part-time job as the local wrestling coach isn't exactly raking in the dough. He shares this duty with his law partner Stephen (Jeffrey Tambor) and eventually his buddy Terry (Bobby Cannavale), who uses it as a distraction from his ex-wife.

One day, while checking up on Leo's house, Mike finds Kyle (Alex Shaffer) sitting on the doorstep. He's Leo's 15-year-old grandson who's run away because he can't stand living with his mother back in Columbus, who's recovering from drug addiction. Mike informs Kyle of Leo's situation but rather than send the kid away, he and Jackie decide to let him stay in their basement until matters are sorted out, although not without hesitation. Ryan has the benefit of delivering the movie's funniest lines, including, “I'm not taking any risks with Eminem down there.”

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