Very nice "family" drama, with a wrestling theme. A cut above most recent movies.

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2011)

Set in New Jersey, Paul Giamatti is Mike Flaherty, lawyer and family man, and also serves as the wrestling coach at the local high school. The team isn't very good, they never won a match, sometimes even struggle to get a point.
Amy Ryan is his wife Jackie Flaherty.
Mike is a sincere guy, but business is slow, and we also get the feeling he isn't such a high-powered lawyer. He is having trouble making ends meet and has to do what he can to survive.
In the midst of all this, after he gains a $1500 a month guardianship of an older man in early stages of dementia, and puts him into a home, a young boy shows up on the doorstep of the older man's home.
The young boy is Alex Shaffer as Kyle, 17, and has basically run away from home in Ohio to be with his grandfather in New Jersey. His mom is a mess, in and out of abuse clinics, and he wants a better life. As luck would have it, Kyle also happens to be a star wrestler, and is eager to join the high school team.
(In real life, Shaffer really is a star wrestler and won the NJ state high school title in his weight class. This is his first movie.)
There is some wrestling, of course, but the story is really about family dynamics, between Kyle and his grandpa, Kyle and his mother, and Kyle with the new adopted family, the Flahertys. Good movie, and Giamatti is great as always.