Dealin' with Idiots

Max Morris (Jeff Garlin), a well-known stand-up comedian, coaches and watches his young son — also named Max — play on a youth Little League baseball team. His son is not a skilled player, but that proves to be the least of Max's concerns: he is quickly overwhelmed by the absurd competitiveness and personal eccentricities of the other parents and coaches surrounding the team. Sensing rich comedic material, Max decides to embed himself more deeply with these colorful characters — parents, coaches, and hangers-on — as research for his next movie. He carries a video camera to document encounters and arranges individual meetings with the team's various adults. Along the way he deals with his wife Ava (Nia Vardalos) and finds himself having imaginary conversations with his father (Timothy Olyphant). The film unfolds as a loosely structured, largely improvised comedy vignette series, following Max through practices, games, and offsite encounters as he catalogs the neuroses, delusions, and competitive obsessions of the Little League world around him. The narrative has no strong traditional arc or climax; instead it accumulates character sketches and absurd interpersonal exchanges that collectively illustrate the gap between the seriousness adults bring to children's sports and the trivial stakes involved. Detailed scene-by-scene plot information and a specific ending resolution are not well-documented in available online sources; the film's improvisational nature means individual scenes vary in coverage.

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