Apple's 'The Dink' Trailer: Jake Johnson Gets a Pickleball "Prescription" From Ben Stiller
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Dessi Gomez
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Apple's upcoming comedy film 'The Dink' stars Jake Johnson as a former tennis star who injures his wrist and is "prescribed" pickleball by a doctor played by Ben Stiller. Ed Harris plays a character who calls pickleball an "epidemic." The film also features Mary Steenburgen, Patton Oswalt, Chloe Fineman, Andy Roddick, Chris Parnell, and Aaron Chen.
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· 3 pulledThough "DINK" can be an acronym for "dual income, no kids" the Apple film centers around the other common association with the word, the sport, or "epidemic" as Ed Harris' character Chuck Boyd calls it: pickleball.
Early on in the clip, Jake Johnson's former tennis star Dusty Boyd trips over the net and injures his wrist in a bad way.
A visit to a doctor played by Ben Stiller, who also produced the film, lands him a "prescription" for pickleball.
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