A sunny summer comedy that provides fleeting but genuine pleasure, "The Dink" is a sports movie that tackles a vast cultural divide: tennis vs. pickleball.

"The Dink" is a sports comedy film starring Jake Johnson as a former tennis prodigy who discovers pickleball.

"I think part of what's so funny about it is, you know, how quickly something that starts very (much) as casual fun can become deeply competitive and also weirdly emotional," the 47-year-old director ...