Win Win (Thomas McCarthy)

Another winner from Thomas McCarthy (director of The Station Agent)and starring Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan as a married couple in middle-class New Jersey struggling to make ends meet. When Giamatti's character--a lawyer with a small practice built on court referrals and a side-job coaching the high-school's perennially losing wrestling team--finds a way to add to the family cash flow with what seems to be only a small ethical violation, he enmeshes himself (and his wife) into the heart of an old man's dysfunctional family. The situation gets further complicated when the old man's grandson moves into the lawyer's household and turns out to be a top-notch wrestler.

As with most family-based comic dramas, trusts are violated and lessons learned. The narrative is deftly handled and the audience isn't clubbed with the moral.

Recommend.