7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Short Game (2025)
The Short Game (2025)
Overview
Sports drama 'The Short Game,' directed by Frank Sanza, centers on high school golfer Jeremy Avery (Ben Krieger), who pursues a college scholarship amid family pressures from his autistic younger brother Ethan (Owen Himfar). As he approaches a major victory, Jeremy faces a pivotal decision between personal ambitions and family loyalty. Mackenzie Astin and Katherine Cunningham co-star as his parents.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.5
Overview
Sports drama 'The Short Game,' directed by Frank Sanza, centers on high school golfer Jeremy Avery (Ben Krieger), who pursues a college scholarship amid family pressures from his autistic younger brother Ethan (Owen Himfar). As he approaches a major victory, Jeremy faces a pivotal decision between personal ambitions and family loyalty. Mackenzie Astin and Katherine Cunningham co-star as his parents.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's core conflict centers on balancing athletic ambition with family responsibilities, resolved through embracing personal and familial duty, which remains apolitical in its focus on individual and relational dynamics.
The film incorporates disability representation by casting a neurodiverse actor as the autistic character, adding authenticity to themes of family support and personal growth. Traditional identities receive neutral to positive framing without critique.
Secondary
The film endorses traditional family values through its depiction of sibling redemption, parental support, and faith as integral to overcoming personal challenges and achieving unity. The decisive factor is the positive portrayal of family sacrifice and Christian principles guiding household roles and bonds.
Christianity appears as a guiding force in the characters' lives, depicted through family prayers, biblical references, and church attendance that underscore themes of perseverance and moral integrity.
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes are present in the film.
The film contains no identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its story explores family bonds and personal growth through the lens of autism and sports ambition, offering no commentary on transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film presents original characters in a coming-of-age sports drama without adaptations or biopics that alter established genders from source material.
The Short Game presents original fictional characters in a family sports drama, with no established canonical or historical racial baselines from source material, prior adaptations, or real events, yielding no race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
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