Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game

This is billed as a comedy, not sure why. It's not funny. It's not anything. There's real story told, no humor, there's no drama. There's no character development no pacing. The basketball game is just a vehicle to bring these non entity's; namely the bored coach, his over enthusiastic assistant (who can't fully engage with the embarrassing part he's playing) and the uninterested team together in a single setting. The cringy dialogue and cardboard cut out characters could just peter out as a mercy and die here but no it gets worse as the director drags more pointless strawmen into this dull lifeless bore.

The subplots involving the drama group and the referees dog are likewise boring, bring nothing to the story and are there for the sake of them. The running 'joke' in the movie is the continual discussion of 'The Matrix' movie. You'd be better off watching that than this pointless waste of time. The only reason it gets a 3/10 from me is the thankfully short running time.

I'm going to keep my eye on Ted Stenson.

This is a wonderfully unpretentious, subtly humorous, well-paced, well-written indy film that's pure fun.

Directors working with their own material can sometimes allow a film to sprawl or have trouble editing their "baby". But Stenson doesn't overstay his welcome giving us a well fashioned story that doesn't bog down or meander even with a full cast of characters and storylines.

The concept is a simple "slice-of-life" at a high school basketball game without overwrought drama or forced humor but with lots of very wry dialog and dry wit.

This really is a master class on efficient film making and the camera work is steady and unobtrusive (a rarity these days).

Job well done on every front. Worthy of repeat viewings.