![]() ![]() He needed a better pulpit from which to teach so he asked to borrow Simon's boat. The people were crowding in so much that many could not hear him teach. Soon Jesus stopped and looked directly at Simon, asking for his help. While he was washing his nets of defeat in the early morning, he began to eavesdrop on the powerful words of a nearby teacher named Jesus. He was a talented professional whose livelihood and reputation depended largely on his ability to perform. ![]() He had fished all night and caught nothing. Simon had just finished an awful performance. He was defined by what he did, and his livelihood depended upon his performance. Years ago there was a man who spent his life dreaming about the big win, the day he would be heralded as the best. Significance will be defined by your character, relationships, values, virtues and faith, not by a golf score. Life in the end will be measured by significance, not a golf score. What controls your life? Is it controlled by a golf score, by a bank account or by what's written on your business card? In our culture, a high premium is placed on success, achievement and performance. What does your life stand for? What do you have inside that will last, even when your casket is lowered into the earth? Using many settings on and off the course at Utopia, he shares the secrets of a lifetime.īut his final and most important lesson is delivered here at the cemetery.Īs Johnny and the young pro ponder the headstone inscriptions, Johnny asked the question that we all must face: "What will your epitaph say?" Two fine actresses, Leo and Baker, on the other hand, are wasted.In the story, Johnny teaches the young pro powerful lessons about unleashing his true potential as a player and as a human being. ![]() Miyagi," combine in a low-keyed way to raise the film's game as only a solid young actor playing off a solid old actor can do. Enough said.īlack's Luke (as in Skywalker?) and Duvall's Johnny, a combination of The Empire Strikes Back's "Yoda" and The Karate Kid's "Mr. This screenplay also includes a new wrinkle that will involve and even fascinate some viewers while disappointing or even infuriating others: the specifics will not be detailed here, but let's just say that, late in the game, the film withholds expected information and suggests another way for interested audience members to avail themselves of it. Duly noted.īut then that must also be the explanation for any awkward coincidences, which screenplays shouldn't feature. The script reminds us on several occasions that there are no accidents. Front pocket, too.ĭirector Matthew Dean Russell - working from a screenplay that he collaborated on with Rob Levine, Sandra Thrift, and executive producer David Cook (who's a sports psychologist) that's based on Cook's best-selling 2009 novel, Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia - delivers a spiritual drama that mines the metaphoric value of golf for all it's worth. Which he does, enough so that Luke can compete in the Texas Open with a whole new perspective in his back pocket. Luke also comes to know the fetching Sarah Hawkins, a waitress played by Deborah Ann Woll her mom, Lily, played by Melissa Leo Johnny's sister, Mabel, a hostess played by Kathy Baker and Jake, a romantic rival played by Brian Geraghty.īut it's Crawford who tells Luke that he can restore him to golf glory in just seven days. There, Luke goes into hiding, and an eccentric rancher and (it just so happens) former PGA professional named Johnny Crawford, played by Robert Duvall, offers him golf lessons that are really life lessons, in order to provide Luke with a new way of looking at his existence. When he accidentally wrecks the car by riding off the road, he finds himself stranded in tiny Utopia, Texas (population: under 400) for the titular week. He gets in his car and drives away from the limelight and the pressure, along the back roads of Texas. Subsequently and consequently, Luke drops out, confused and mortified and devastated. After a disastrous debut (nothing less than a meltdown in a nationally televised tournament in which Luke loses his focus and his composure), his father, working as his caddy, walks off the green in disgust in the middle of the match because he thinks his son has choked. ![]()
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