Tennis movies, anyone?
There have been tennis sequences in such eclectic films as Woody Allen's 2005 drama "Match Point" and Alfred Hitchcock's intense 1951 thriller "Strangers on a Train." But in general, tennis-centered movies such as 2004's "Wimbledon" have netted poor results with critics and audiences.
Because the genre has been so ill-served, actor Jeremy Sisto, known for "Six Feet Under" and "The Returned," and his friend Gene Hong, a writer-producer whose credits include "Bones," saw "space in the movie index" for a tennis dramedy, Sisto said.
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The two came up with the idea for "Break Point," which opens in theaters Friday — quite appropriately, in the midst of the U.