This film image released by FilmDistrict shows Gerard Butler in a scene from "Playing for Keeps." (AP Photo/FilmDistrict, Dale Robinette)
The clock may be running out on Gerard Butler?s window as a viable leading man, as his scruffy charms wear thin in the romantic comedy "Playing for Keeps."
Butler plays George Darby, once an internationally renowned soccer star but now a down-on-his-luck divorced dad in a D.C. suburb. Watching his son, Lewis (Noah Lomax), at soccer practice, George gets frustrated by the terrible coaching and decides to take over coaching duties himself.
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?Playing for Keeps?
Opens Friday, Dec. 7, at theaters everywhere; rated PG-13 for some sexual situations, language and a brief intense image; 106 minutes.
George soon draws the admiring gaze of the various soccer moms: needy Barb (Judy Greer), man-eating Denise (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and still-married Patti (Uma Thurman), in spite of her possessive husband, Carl (Dennis Quaid). But George?s heart still belongs to Lewis? mom, Stacie (Jessica Biel), who?s about to marry dull-but-nice Matt (James Tupper).
Director Gabriele Muccino ("Seven Pounds," "The Pursuit of Happyness") can?t decide whether Robbie Fox?s script should be played as sex farce or heart-tugging romance ? and splitting the difference is a loser both ways.
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