"Playing For Keeps" With Gerard Butler: Trailer and Reviews
If a shaggy guy with a Scottish burr is your cup of tea, pull up a chair for this attempt at a romantic comedy.
"Playing For Keeps" tries to answer the vexing question: what's a worn out Scottish soccer star to do? If you're George Dyer (Gerard Butler), you move to a Virginia suburb, home to your pre-teen son (Noah Lomax) and your ex-wife (Jennifer Biel), now engaged, and you try to break into sportscasting. In the meantime, you become the coach of your estranged son's soccer team, whose sponsor is played by Dennis Quaid, and you learn how to handle the soccer moms (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman and Judy Greer). Then you decide that your ex-wife really is the woman of your dreams and you begin to pursue her. Could voicing a character in "How to Train Your Dragon" be a more memorable role for Butler? Here's what the critics are saying: Some …
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