A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he's double-crossed comes into his life.
Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything.
The film tells the lawyer played by Paul Giamatti Mike, he served as a high school wrestling coach, he used some suspicious means of making a great wrestling talent of the boys become the main team. However, the emergence of the boy's mother, a threat to his current ...
Paul • Giamatti in the film who plays a lawyer named the Mike • Flaherty. He told a lot of people work as hard to maintain their livelihood. In addition to deal with the customers, he was a pillar of the family, also serves as a high school wrestling coach. However, he led the team very bad. Leo • poplar (the Potter • Young ornaments) is a dementia in patients with early, seeing the need for someone to care; take this opportunity to Mike to take on his legal guardian, in order to supplement their income. Leo was settled in a nursing home, and Mike each month to receive an allowance of $ 1,500, the name of this thinking seems to not be a problem, but the potential obstacles or unexpected to: Leo had never met 16-year-old grandson Kyle (Alex • Schaefer ornaments)!
After much consider, Mike and his wife Jackie (the Amy • Leandro ornaments) barely shelter the trouble-ridden but very polite young man; the same time, they managed to find the child's mother in Ohio there. Kyle to seize this opportunity to get in contact with the grandfather never met. During this period, he also helped Mike quite a bit - he has proven to the outbreak of a talented wrestler. Mike brought the wrestling team again and again to win the additional income to ease the economic burden. This win-win situation, Mike and what guilt, until one day, Leo's daughter, Cindy (ornaments) the Melanie • Linsky, to take out. Cindy drug addiction, rehabilitation, has just received the current penniless, in addition to back his son, she had to claim the allowance of $ 1,500 this month. In her view, she was entitled to the money from his father, even though they have 20 not seen in years. Kyle will attend the most important of his young life a wrestling match, this time Cindy's arrival helped him