Grace is Gone

Gossip Sauce Sundance Report: The Winning Season

January 21, 2009 at 5:07am PST

Tags: Emma Robert, Grace is Gone, James C. Strouse, Remember the Titans, Sam Rockwell, Sundance, The Winning Season

Photos: sundance.org

We're guessing The Winning Season was, most likely, a script that writer-director James C. Strouse (Grace is Gone) wanted to sell to a studio like Disney but couldn't, so, instead, he decided to suck it up, shoot on DV Cam, try to get the most name brand talent he could (in this case, Emma Roberts and Sam Rockwell) and shoot his vision.

Sam Rockwell stars as a former high school basketball star who's now a divorced, alcoholic dish washer relegated to stealing leftover food and drinks from the tables he buses.

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