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Playing for Keeps (2012)

★ 5.7 · 724 ratings on TMDB

This holiday season, what do you really want?

Playing for Keeps poster★ 5.7

A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

DirectorGabriele Muccino
CastCatherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid, Gerard Butler, Iqbal Theba, James Tupper, Jessica Biel
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Playing for Keeps keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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