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From Sundance 2007 Audience Award-Winning Director James Strouse, and starring the inimitable Sam Rockwell and fast rising star Emma Roberts, comes the hilarious story of a washed up basketball coach who must learn to overcome his love of booze, his chauvinistic attitude towards women and his overdeveloped macho nature, in order to re-invent himself as a real man and give a bunch of no-hopers a shot at a WINNING SEASON!

Meet Bill Greaves, the infamously successful high school basketball coach who’s lost everything and is now resigned to washing dishes at the local diner. I guess that’s where you end up when your team walks out on you right in the middle of the sectional finals…

But an old friend and local high school principal offers him a last chance to coach again. Thrilled at the prospect of returning to the court, and desperate for a change of scene, Bill is fired up for anything – until he finds out who he’ll be coaching. It’s the girls’ basketball team, and a first glance at this team of disorganized 17 year-olds, it’s clear he’s got his work cut out for him.

And it’s not just the basketball that’s going to be tough. After being reprimanded by his team for calling an opposition player ‘big’, Bill soon learns that managing a team of teenage girls requires a more delicate, sensitive and emotional coaching style than the bull-headed approach that worked for him with the boys. And judging by his fragile relationship with his daughter and ex-wife, understanding women is not one of his talents. At all. Not even a little bit. But with the guidance of the team’s eccentric bus driver Donna, Bill slowly begins to work it out.

Newly emboldened, Bill sets out to turn the girls’ season around, rebuild his relationship with his daughter and perhaps, maybe, even find a little happiness of his own…

‘Little Miss Sunshine’ meets ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ and ‘Bring it On’ in this extremely funny, oestrogen loaded and surprisingly touching comedy about one man’s tortuous and difficult journey towards understanding… women.