When I first saw the internet ads for "Win Win", I thought it was another one of those teen movies because it shows Paul Giamatti and a teenage boy sitting by the bleachers. So I expected it to be more like "Superbad" or "Sex Drive" or "Adventureland" or "Charlie Bartlett", and so on and so forth. It actually turned out to be pretty different.
When I found out Thomas McCarthy was the director, I immediately put it on the queue. The film shares some of the same themes from his previous movies, specifically about seemingly unlikely friendships. However, "Win Win" has a lighter mood than "The Station Agent" or "The Visitor".
There are some silly moments and some punch lines that the first two films didn't really have. Overall, though, it has the same McCarthy feel, like a foreign film set in America. Thomas employs the same cinematographer (Oliver Bokelberg) and editor (Tom McArdle).
I guess it's true what they say. Don't judge a film by its poster. Actually, wait. Shouldn't you judge a film by the poster, and a book by its cover? Aren't the outsides of these things designed to be representative of the content? Don't they pay people for that?
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