Anthony (Taylor John Smith) is a standout player on his Manhattan high schools basketball team with seemingly everything going for him: a killer three-point shot, a living girlfriend (zazie Beetz), and a chance at a scholarship to Cornell. But Anthony's dreams of playing college ball are jeopardized by his volatile father (Michael Shannon), a hard-drinking writer whose compulsive gambling threatens to derail the lives of both his wife (Carla Gugino) and son.