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(Series Premiere) Years ago, as a student at Detroit's West Lakefield High School, Ray Drecker was athletic, popular, and destined for success. Today, as a West Lakefield teacher and coach of the varsity basketball team (which is on an unprecedented losing streak), he's underpaid, uninsured, and embittered that his wife of 20 years (Anne Heche) has left him for her dermatologist. After a fire damages the rundown lakeside home he inherited from his parents, Ray's sagging fortunes reach an all-time low when his twin children Darby and Damon, who had been living with him, move in with their mom and her smug hubby, Ronnie Haxon (Eddie Jemison). Lonely, run-down and at wit's end, Ray decides to attend a local self-help class whose mantra is to identify a personal winning tool to market for financial success. After a not-so-fulfilling encounter with a fellow attendeean ex-flame and would-be poet named Tanya Skagle (Jane Adams)Ray has a eureka moment. With the help of Tanya, Ray resolves to take advantage of his greatest asset, in hopes of changing his fortunes in a big way.
Original Release
06/28/2009
US Release
06/28/2009
Cast
Name | Character |
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Thomas Jane | Ray Drecker |
Jane Adams | Tanya Skagle |
Eddie Jemison | Ronnie Haxon |
Charlie Saxton | Damon Drecker |
Sianoa Smit-McPhee | Darby Drecker |
Anne Heche | Jessica Haxon |
Gregg Henry | Mike |
Steve Hytner | Floyd Gerber |
Loren Lester | Howard Koontz |
Marylouise Burke | Jessica's Mother |
Directors
Writers
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Thomas Jane | Ray Drecker |
Jane Adams | Tanya Skagle |
Eddie Jemison | Ronnie Haxon |
Charlie Saxton | Damon Drecker |
Sianoa Smit-McPhee | Darby Drecker |
Anne Heche | Jessica Haxon |
Gregg Henry | Mike |
Steve Hytner | Floyd Gerber |
Loren Lester | Howard Koontz |
Marylouise Burke | Jessica's Mother |
Ken Watkins | (as Kenneth Watkins) |
Milica Govich | Urologist |
Greg Prusiewicz | Axel |
Michael W Ellison | Workman |
Mike Ancrile | Bartender 2009 |
Jessica Cottrell | Woman in restaurant window |
Terence Lee Cover | Goth In Line |
William C. Fox | William |
Scott Joel Gizicki | Goth In Line |
Michelle Goetsch | Party Guest |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Alexander Payne | Executive Producer |
Colette Burson | Executive Producer |
Dmitry Lipkin | Executive Producer |
Noreen Halpern | Executive Producer |
John Morayniss | Executive Producer |
Michael Rosenberg | Executive Producer |
Scott Stephens | Executive Producer |
Kathryn Lekan | Producer |
Guy Oseary | Producer |
George Parra | Producer |
Peter Phillips | Producer |