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“His comeback is a long shot.” In Stick, Owen Wilson stars as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After the collapse of his marriage and getting fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store, Pryce hedges his bets, and future, entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi (Peter Dager). Stick is a heartfelt, feel-good comedy about a found family and their relationships set within the world of golf as it has never been shown before. Stick is a series created by and showrun by writer Jason Keller, writer of the scripts for Machine Gun Preacher, Mirror Mirror, Escape Plan, Ford v Ferrari. With writing by Christopher Moynihan, Bill Callahan, Kate Fodor, Esti Giordani, Ryan Hooper, Bryan Johnson, Jimy Shah. Eps directed by Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton, Jaffar Mahmood, David Dobkin, MJ Delaney, and John Hamburg. Exec produced by Jason Keller, Owen Wilson, Ben Silverman, Guymon Casady, Howard T. Owens, Rodney Ferrell, Drew Buckley, Natalie Sandy, Lee Eisenberg, Christopher Moynihan, Bill Callahan, Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, and Jaffar Mahmood. (courtesy First Showing)
If you look at life purely as a series of linear events, where things go from good to better to best, then it’s easy to assume that when everything falls apart, that that is THHAT.
But life isn’t ever that neat and tidy and it’s very often the case that when you fall face first into rock bottom, that there’s a dangling rope where you least expect it which you can use to haul yourself back up again.
Case in point is Stick, which is all about second chances and found family and how, all evidence to the contrary, there are actually ways to not just restart your life but to take it somewhere you never expect it to go to.
Stick premieres on 4 June on AppleTV+