Yes. This is what a generic movie is like.

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2019)

I thought this was going to be a comedy...
This likeable, if rather nondescript drama fills its running time pretty well. It's characters are mostly well imagined and likeable (except the mother; she annoyed me).
There's a comedic tone but they never let it distract from the substance. There's at least a couple of coincidences in its plot and it doesn't have the courtesy to really give the viewer what they want as it takes some predictable routes only to kind of end with its middle finger in our faces but it isn't half bad.
A laconic youth manages to make something of himself through sport. So yes it's a sports movie which like any adequate sports movie isn't really about sport but what Stallone calls "the journey". It's nice enough to not climax with a fight but the distinctly less interesting plot line of the lawyer doing something necessary but apparently unscrupulous. The problem is that it's crucial to the plot that what this guy does is apparently so heinous but you kind of empathize.
There's a cute child actor who is frankly a bit wasted but the talent all round is pretty admirable in handling a rather dry story with pathos and personality.
The movie never tries to be a comedy like I said but even then isn't as funny as it thinks it is. ("Oh s$#!")
Not memorable but I didn't feel like switching it off.