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Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)

Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach poster
Directed by
Danny Leiner
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 123 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former professional tennis player now works as a high school janitor. He takes on the job of coaching the school's tennis team.

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What happens

Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach is a 2009 American sports comedy film directed by Danny Leiner (in his final directorial effort before his death) and starring Seann William Scott and Randy Quaid alongside A. D. Miles, Brando Eaton and Leonor Varela. The film follows Gary "The Beast" Houseman (Scott), a high school janitor and former professional tennis player who begins coaching the high school's tennis team, and marks the second collaboration between Leiner and Scott, following Dude, Where's My Car? (2000). Filming took place primarily in Austin and Taylor, Texas. Balls Out was released direct-to-video in the United States on January 14, 2009. The film received a limited theatrical release in Iceland on July 15, 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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