a closeup of Luke Wilson looking teary eyed in You Gotta Believe
Ty Roberts’ inspirational sports drama You Gotta Believe relies on age-old playbooks to a fault. It’s a true story and a surefire tear-jerker, but Lane Garrison’s screenplay is reductively hokey at the worst times. Fort Worth’s Westside All-Stars defied the odds in 2002, dedicating their miraculous season to first basemen Robert Ratliff’s terminally ill father, Bobby.
Frustratingly, You Gotta Believe does demonstrate flickers of an appealing family drama with a softer, comforting perspective on death. Cash and his pipsqueak castmates joke about hot sisters and Ichiro playing cards with All-American boyishness. Roberts’ vision is squeaky-clean, which can be lovable, as Jon’s wife Kathy bucks his funk by pushing him into their inground pool, or how Bobby’s wife Patti becomes the steadfast rock of the Ratliff household.
Wilson’s portrayal of ailing Bobby stirs empathy and delivers pungent whiffs of morbid courage, but the material itself routinely overplays. Franky, most of You Gotta Believe is guilty of this practice. Wilson, Kinnear, Parker, and Gadon can appear so natural, only for an absurd detail meant for extra-cheesy effects to disrupt organic sentiments. Roberts cannot escape a saccharine double-sweetness that rots our teeth, guiding storytelling toward predictable choke-up points.
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