Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009) on Netflix
Gary Houseman, a high school janitor in Lincoln, Nebraska, never got over his failed pro tennis career. When the coach dies, he takes over the misfit team and chases a state title.
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Gary Houseman is a janitor at a high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, and he has never gotten over the professional tennis career that slipped away from him. When the school's tennis coach, Lew Tuttle, dies, nobody is left to run the team, and Gary steps in. He coaches the players in his own unorthodox style and sets his sights on the Nebraska state championships.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
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- The screenplay for Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach, written by Andy Stock and Rick Stempson, won the 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition and was featured on the 2005 Black List script survey under the title Gary the Tennis Coach.
- Although the film is set in Lincoln, Nebraska, it was filmed mostly in Austin, Texas, and various locations around the city; both screenwriters are Lincoln East High School graduates.
