The Winning Season
The Winning Season is a 2009 American sports comedy film written and directed by James C. Strouse and starring Sam Rockwell. Premiering at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the film had a limited theatrical release on September 3, 2010, distributed by Lionsgate in the United Kingdom and the United States after they brought the rights to the film at Sundance. Plum Pictures and Gigi Films produced the film. Plot. Bill Greaves, a divorced deadbeat dad, is estranged from his teenage daughter Molly. His friend Terry is a high school principal who gives him a job as the  coach for the girls' varsity basketball team. Bill begins to regret his decision when he meets the girls on the team: Abbie Miller, Tamra Schemerhorn, Mindy, Wendy Webber, Lisa Robinson, and Kathy Reyes. They improve under Bill's coaching and advise him on his relationship with his daughter, but their winning season does not protect the girls from their real world difficulties. Cast. Devin Ratray portrays a security officer named "Buzz", in reference to his role as "Buzz McCallister" in "Home Alone" (1995) and "" (1997). Ratray would subsequently reprise his role as Buzz McCallister in "Home Sweet Home Alone" (2021 ), in which Buzz is revealed to have become a police officer (and to have also formerly been employed as a security guard) since the events of the first two "Home Alone" films.