Wolves

5.7
2016 1 hr 49 min Drama

Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.

  • Cast:
    Carla Gugino , Zazie Beetz , Michael Shannon , Chris Bauer , Jessica Rothe , Taylor John Smith , Jake Choi

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Reviews

Pluskylang
2016/10/25

Great Film overall

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TrueHello
2016/10/26

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Philippa
2016/10/27

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Bob
2016/10/28

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Steve Mathie
2016/10/29

The basketball element of this game is the worst I have ever seen. It's so dumb. Shocks me. The little gym and the whole walking in to play while hurt . Come on. Wtf is this?

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westsideschl
2016/10/30

I've coached the game at every level. This is what I saw. The only accurate bball scene in the movie is the star actor's/player's shooting form. Defensive movement/agility skills are hard to develop and a sign of having played the game; they looked poorly, acting-staged. Everything else was just misrepresentation, and bad misrepresentation at that. Most notably the confrontation scenes on the playground; in practice and of course in the game. Isolated and small incidents do take place, but statistically would represent less than 1% of such games played. The confrontational language & behaviors of parents and coaches were just as unrealistic. Coaching to instill "rage", sorry, but the best players develop "control" of their emotions. Yes, isolated examples are out there as there are in anything, so what. They are not defining? Scouts don't show up advertising themselves; they try to blend anonymously.

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BasicLogic
2016/10/31

I could never understand how a parent would do harm to his own child to pay for his gambling debts. I've read in Chinese history that the adult parents were so hungry during the famine, so they exchanged their children with each other or one another to eat them, they could not eat their own children so they exchange theirs with others' kids to make them easier to kill. When a new lion got rid of the old dominant lion and became the leader, he usually would try every possible way and opportunity to kill the pubs not from him. (*Partially spoiler)In this film, we encountered a father who purposely hurt his son, a promising high school basketball star, and betting his son's team to lose in order to win a lot of money to pay for his gambling debts. This is the first time I witnessed such lowest parenthood in a movie making it quite memorable. There's one other thing that bother me a lot from this film: Almost all the white boys got black girl friends which again inevitably made me think that movie industry in America purposely try their best to brain wash the viewers to promote the 'Melting Pot' crap.

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David Ferguson
2016/11/01

Greetings again from the darkness. Anthony is a good kid with a bright future. He's a star basketball player and a bright student, and has a loyal girlfriend and seemingly normal home life. It comes as no surprise that most of those elements either aren't as smooth as they seem, or are more complex than on the surface.Writer/director Bart Freundlich (known for his 1997 debut feature The Myth of Fingerprints, and for being married to Julianne Moore) slowly unveils the cracks in Anthony's (Taylor John Smith) façade. His college professor dad (the always great Michael Shannon) is a drunk, abusive man with a short fuse and severe gambling addiction. He's the kind of guy who is always working on his great American novel, while juggling gambling debts and throwing down quiet jealousy of his son. His mother (Carla Gugino) has good intentions and clearly wants the best for her son, but she's just not capable of standing up to the menace. It plays like a Maslow's hierarchy of crappy parenting.There are plenty of clichés that we've seen in many movies, but it's a pleasure to see so much real basketball being played. Anthony has a sweet jump shot and a sweet girlfriend named Victoria (Zazie Beetz), and the interpersonal relationships all have nuances that come across as real life. Even Uncle Charlie (Chris Bauer) seems torn about which family member most needs his protection. Emotional-physical-financial strains abound and it all seems to crash down on Anthony as he strives to earn a college scholarship by impressing the coaches from Cornell.As Anthony navigates the choppy waters towards independence, the film teases us with some sub-plots that could have been further explored. Anthony hits it off with an older, wiser street baller (John Douglas Thompson) who starts mentoring him. We also are given hope that Anthony's mom will actually do something for her son rather than regretting what she hasn't done. Lastly there is a quick tease as to an alternative past that would make some sense – though whether that's real or imagined is left up to the viewer's perspective.The film ultimately plays like a Disney film that utilizes an inordinate number of "F-words", and it even reminds a bit of the Paul Giamatti movie Win Win. It's the acting and the periodic sequences of real emotion that allow us to remain interested in the characters right up until the end … even if our hopes differ from one of Anthony's own parents.

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