Feel-good sports movies are a dime a dozen, and Stick carries on their tradition.

The catch is that instead of handling its redemptive underdog tale in a crisp 90 minutes, Jason Keller’s Apple TV+ series, premiering June 6, spends a whopping five-and-a-half hours on its familiar story. Stretching clichés so thin that its comedy by and large vanishes, thereby neutering charming turns from Owen Wilson and Mark Maron, this slog is like a more heartfelt Happy Gilmore if it ran as long as Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander.

Stick‘s premise reads, and plays, like something an AI would spit out after having been fed the plots of every sports film from the 20th century.

Pryce Cahill (Wilson) was known as “Stick” when he was a PGA Tour hotshot, but his career crashed and burned after he melte

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