New Release: Win Win Blu-ray and DVD

Win Win movie scene

Paul Giamatti (l.) and Alex Shaffer sit one out in Win Win.

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the acclaimed comedy-drama Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti (Barney’s Version) and Amy Ryan (Jack Goes Boating), on Blu-ray and DVD on Aug. 23, 2011.

Giamatti plays lawyer and high-school wrestling coach Mike Flaherty, who’s going through troubling financial times until he comes across a teenage runaway (debuting actor Alex Shaffer) who also happens to be a champion wrestler. Taking the teen in and getting him enrolled in school, things start to look up for Mike and his family. But Mike’s win-win situation soon becomes more complicated when the boy’s family affairs come into play…

Directed by Tom McCarthy (The Visitor) and co-starring Bobby Cannavale (The Other Guys), Jeffrey Tambor (TV’s The Larry Sanders Show), Melanie Lynskey (The Informant!) and Burt Young (Once Upon a Time in America), Win Win is an ultimately uplifting comedy-drama that truly acknowledges (celebrates?) the uniqueness of 21st century families.

A critics’ darling, Win Win grossed about $10 million at the domestic box office during its limited theatrical release earlier this year.

Here’s a list of the features on the Blu-ray and DVD:

  • deleted scenes:
    • Mike Meets with Mrs. Tedesco
    • Family and Leo Drive to Courthouse
  • Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni, co-creator of the story, discuss the movie
  • actor David Thompson at Sundance 2011
  • In Conversation with Tom McCarthy and Paul Giamatti at Sundance 2011
  • Family
  • “Think You Can Wait” music video by The National

Check out the film’s trailer below and a review by “Movie Irv” here:

 

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