The Break

5.4

/10

1h 44mDrama Comedy

A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides to teach him all the tricks, both physical and psychological, of the trade. The two battle the kids of a famous coach, unfair refs., injuries, travel all over the southern US, while Nick tries to woo his love back, finally to reach the big championship tennis match where all is resolved in dramatic fashion.A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of t... Read more

Starring Martin Sheen, Rae Dawn Chong, Valerie Perrine, Vincent Van Patten, Ben Monk, Betsy Russell, Daryl Anderson, Gerrit Graham, Trevor Goddard, Nels Van Patten

Watch "The Break" from streaming services Vudu, Amazon Prime, Amazon released in 1995. It's a drama and comedy movie, and has a rating of 5.4 out of 10 from Imdb which is fairly okay for this kind of movie.