Look: Ed Harris, Jake Johnson, Chloe Fineman attend 'Dink' premiere
Jake Johnson plays a faded tennis pro who joins the pickleball craze as the comedy streams with Ben Stiller, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris and Patton Oswalt.
- On Friday, Apple TV premieres The Dink, a sports comedy starring Jake Johnson as a former tennis prodigy who reluctantly adopts pickleball. The film also features Mary Steenburgen and Ed Harris.
- Dustin Boyd, a failed tennis prodigy coached by his exacting father Chuck, reluctantly turns to pickleball after a wrist injury ends his tennis career. He seeks redemption and his father's approval through the sport.
- Director Josh Greenbaum and producer Ben Stiller crafted the film, drawing comparisons to Dodgeball through its underdog sports narrative. Comedy veterans Patton Oswalt and Chris Parnell make cameos in the tennis club world.
- Critics note the film follows a formulaic underdog narrative, yet praise Johnson's accessible performance and the movie's humane tone. The comedy treats pickleball with irreverent respect rather than mockery.
- Pickleball participation grew over 300 percent in recent years, and The Dink capitalizes on the sport's rapid transition to mainstream prominence. The film positions the game as central to a story of cultural and personal redemption.
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Jake Johnson is charming and likeable in the lead role as the tennis talent who failed and stalled – and now has to find his way back to life.
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khbrknewsMary Steenburgen Does Not Feel Bad if You Lost Your Tennis Court to Pickleball
Mary Steenburgen and Jake Johnson in The Dink —Courtesy of Apple TVPickleball, as you might have heard, has in recent years been considered the fastest-growing sport in America. So the combination of the sport’s name, how it’s played—on a tiny court, with a ping-pongish racket, and a wiffle-ish plastic ball—and surging popularity makes it ripe for parody.Enter The Dink, a new comedy directed by Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, …
‘The Dink’ Review: Pickleball Takes on Tennis in a Mild Underdog Sports Comedy
You don’t have to hit hard to win pickleball — that’s the chief lesson to be taken from “The Dink,” a sports comedy titled for the dainty signature shot of the fast-growing racket sport, and it’s one that Josh Greenbaum’s film takes to heart with its own softball comic style. Following a conceited former tennis […]
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