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July 24, 2026

At The Movies: Pickleball is the star of the sports comedy ‘The Dink'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

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A once promising tennis prodigy learns to get over himself and his disdain for pickleball.

It's the tennis establishment versus pickleball enthusiasts at an uptight club in “The Dink,” a kind of spiritual descendant of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” The story itself is very by the books: A once promising tennis prodigy learns to get over himself and his disdain for the “lesser sport.”


 
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