From the Rough
A women's swim coach at Tennessee State University (Taraji P. Henson) gets the chance to coach the men's golf team, a dream assignment for her—but obstacles include a hostile athletic director (Henry Simmons) who has little confidence in her team of international misfits. The movie is inspired by the career of Catana Starks, but we can only hope that Starks' real life has not been so riddled with clichés as the script by Mike Critelli and director Pierre Bagley. Every go-for-the-gold sports-movie trope is recycled here, while Bagley's slack pacing and awkward compositions fail to make golf an interesting spectator sport (an uphill battle anyway). Earnest performances all around (including former Harry Potter nemesis Tom Felton and the late Michael Clark Duncan), but the material defeats them.
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