Behind the Eight Ball (2010)

movie

(13)

Country: Canada
Genres: Drama
Release:
Director: Mike Graveline
Writers: Lawrence Hayward
Language: English
Stars: Dexter Gregoire , Suzanne Serwatuk , Dieter Karl , Jocelyn Panton , Robert L. Duncan , Barbara Gregoire , Meredith Grantier , Kristal Yee , Alexandra Francis , Odessa Bennett
Runtime: 102 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Behind the Eight Ball , Behind the Eight Ball (United Kingdom) , Behind the Eight Ball (Canada)
Plot: Sam Evans, a thirty-something coffee shop owner, is shocked to discover that his long lost father Robert wants to rekindle a relationship with him after abandoning him and his mother thirty-one years previous. Their journey begins at the local pool circuit level, playing a doubles tournament in a bar. This soon escalates as Sam finds himself proving his love for his father after a terminal illness renders his father incapacitated and unable to compete in the World Pool tournament, a high-stakes and well-known nationwide tournament, a tournament his father was never able to win. It is written as a high stakes drama with numerous attempts at comic relief. It takes us on an emotional roller coaster with the ultimate goal defining what it truly means to be a family.
IMDB:tt1732569