This movie is very corny, to say the least, but there are some neat scenes. Gerard Butler need to find better scripts.

A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team as a way to get his life together. His attempts to become an adult are met with challenges from the attractive soccer moms who pursue him at every turn. Playing for Keeps is a sweet Romantic Comedy starring Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Judy Greer basically a very talented cast of talented people and honestly i really enjoyed this film i've seen it like 3 times by now? and each time it gets better to be honest. Butler does a pretty good job as this former sports star and the film is a mix of comedy, romance and even a little bit of drama sometimes and i get it that some people might get bored with the whole thing that a couple of beautiful women fall for just one guy and they basically run after him for the entire film but it's not just about that it's also about a man that tries to win back his kid and his wife plus he also gets to meet a pretty rich guy that hands him a beautiful car and they become friends but not everything is what it seems right? If you liked films of this kind about love, sports and with a few jokes in it you might actually enjoy Playing for Keeps (2012).

Since just before the turn of the 21st century, Hollywood began turning out a number of movies about broken marriages and families being restored. Often times, they have a syrupy appeal that doesn't seem quite real. Aside from the comic book and animated sci-fi or action films, the "reform or conversion" stories seem to be one of the most common put on film so far – well into the next century. They seem to be a genre all their own. Well, "Playing for Keeps" was a 2012 rendition of such a film. But this one assembled an impressive cast of name characters. Some of the acting is overboard, but much of it is OK to good. The problem is with the story and screenplay. The comedy (a real stretch of the word in this film) is provided mostly by the lusting women who make up Hollywood's gratuitous scenarios for sex. Although very little explicit is shown, what there is burdens the film. One wonders why "soccer moms" or single moms don't rail against such stereotyping of women as this in the movies. Anyway, that's enough of a distraction to dampen the rest of the movie and the main plot. Dynamite acting might have saved it, but minus that the film comes across mostly as a lame attempt at a feel-good film. I give it five stars mostly for the good performance by child actor Noah Lomax as Lewis. Dennis Quaid's character, Carl, is something different for him, and not bad. Most of the rest are just so-so.

An honest movie. Just know what it is about.Basically a divorce story with some weird turns but sensitive and realistic.It has the ingredients that, for those that have been there, make sense.Leaves - and this is what I like in the movies that I like - a good taste at the end. Not sad, not too happy, just pleasant.It is not unrealistic, and plays with feelings we know.Loved the Butler play, call it somehow a funny play. Jessica knows a thing or two about the issue so brings the right ingredients into its play.Not a romantic comedy, just a good movie to perhaps clean off some bitter taster some of us kept from own experiences.