Overview
- The Dink began streaming on Apple TV+ on July 24 and is now available to subscribers on the platform.
- Jake Johnson stars as a washed‑up tennis prodigy who is steered into pickleball for rehab and must confront club tensions and his father’s old loyalties.
- Critics have called the film a light, pleasant popcorn comedy that emphasizes warmth and the Johnson–Mary Steenburgen relationship over big, frenetic gags.
- Ben Stiller produced the film and appears in a cameo, and real tennis figures Andy Roddick and John McEnroe play themselves in supporting cameos.
- The movie draws on writer Sean Clements’s experience with real local court disputes and leans into the real‑world pickleball/tennis turf war as a topical but gentle backdrop.