Exclusive: Thomas McCarthy's Win Win

Eight years since his directorial debut The Station Agent debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to raves, actor-turned-filmmaker Tom McCarthy is still bouncing between his two professions, although his sophomore effort The Visitor proved his first movie wasn't a fluke, getting its star Richard Jenkins an Oscar nomination. Win Win is McCarthy's third movie as writer-director, and it takes a similar "dramedic" approach as the first two, this one starring Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty, a New Jersey lawyer who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach. Financial problems force him to make a couple of bad decisions like taking on the paid guardian role of an elderly client, but when that client's runaway grandson Kyle (played by newcomer Alex Shaffer) shows up, Mike...

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