Estranged brothers (Jeremy Sisto and David Walton) reunite to make a run at a local tennis tournament in this wry, if low-stakes, comedy. Jimmy (Sisto), a past-his-prime lout, has alienated everyone he’s ever played with; his brother Darren (Walton), a depressive substitute teacher who’s just been dumped, agrees to partner with him, for lack of anything better to do, if his sibling will take it seriously. They’re shadowed by Barry (Joshua Rush), a friendless local boy with an odd fashion sense and a fixation on being Darren’s BFF.
Director Jay Karas doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel as he puts this odd couple through the paces of getting in shape and reconciling old wounds, but he’s helped by some laugh-out-loud quirk in Gene Hong’s screenplay, nice comic chemistry between the two leads and supporting players like J.K. Simmons as the brothers’ veterinarian dad, plus Chris Parnell, Adam DeVine and Amy Smart. Between this and HBO’s earlier “7 Days in Hell,” tennis is apparently the comedy sport du jour.