The Winning Season is a 2009 American sports comedy film written and directed by James C. Strouse and starring Sam Rockwell. Premiering at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the film had a limited theatrical release on September 3, 2010, distributed by Lionsgate in the United Kingdom and the United States after they brought the rights to the film at Sundance. Plum Pictures and Gigi Films produced the film.