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It's a dark and stormy night and there is no football on the telly and the dishwasher needs stacking?
It was probably due to the fact that the movie was strongly British in dialogue and terminology and dealt a lot with football, (soccer here), which some may have trouble relating too in the U.S. It's unfortunate because this movie is absolutely fantastic and deserved much more coverage over here.
My favourite scene is where the boys are playing football and Christy uses his head to stop the goals and then kicks the penalty!
He was already the biggest star, and the greatest player in a country obsessed with football.
It had some amusing moments like the Football game against the midgets and the 'punishment' of Coozeman but on the whole it lacked originality and the 'Mile' was just stupid and moronic.
To "Bend It Like Beckham" may not mean much to us Americans who know very little about the other football (soccer), but to English sports fans, it is equivalent to "Hit it Like Bonds" or "Dunk it Like Jordan."
It's such a shame that because of it's title this film will be avoided by people who hate football.
Even if you don't like football, go see this film.
Diego Armando Maradona was, and still remains as the best football player, the game has offered.
This documetary if the 1986 World Cup will forever live in the memories of every football fan around the world.
And I never thought I could get so involved in a football match as I did in this movie - and I don't even understand the rules!
The film follows the fortunes of a group of young women who are caught trying to sneak into a football match at Tehran's Azadi Stadium.
I know nothing about soccer (football.)
Of all the football films I have watched, this is one of the 2 best.
Tony Soprano can discuss Sun Tzu with his therapist, then beat a man to death with a frying pan in a fit of rage, and while dismembering and disposing of the body with his nephew, take a break, sit down and watch TV while eating peanut butter out of the jar, and give that nephew advice on his upcoming marriage like they had just finished a Sunday afternoon of viewing NFL football.
But the film is also effective to show how the father resisted this dream because for him science was not the fabric of a true man, like mining or football.
Change the Kung Fu for football and the Turkish Family for a Pakistani one, and you get to watch Bend It Like Beckham (2002) almost scene for scene.
Williams will go to any low in order to replay the football game that haunts his life.
This is actually a very good film, preserved quite well if the fine VHS transfer I rented is any indication -- excellent acting by the principals, especially William Haines as Brown, and good location work at Cambridge with some fine action footage in the climactic Harvard/Yale football game -- but the story must have seemed a hoary chestnut even in 1926.
The opening prologue is brilliant...tears from laughter form everytime I see those football players begin Riverdance!
You start by following a young person who hopes to get into the qualifying football game between Bahrain and Iran.
The problem is the young person is a girl and girls (or women for that matter) are not allowed into football matches to "sit with men".
Actor Herman José plays the role of a football of a soccer entrepreneur that acquires the pass of two African players and tries to sell them for very little money to the rival club of the Benfica (club of its heart),FC Porto, therefore these players did not play well, and it wanted that the FC Port was wronged with this.
Yep, the man who went all crazy with the radio in "Good Morning, Vietnam" is playing football.
Playing football in the yard?
Which do you think the average person would know more/less about: Iranian cinema or Iranian football?
Interestingly, the two come to the forefront of controversial Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's latest film entitled 'Offside', a tale that uses football or access to football as a backdrop for a series of scenes revolving around one's right to do something or go somewhere and an individual's right to extend that courtesy if and when they'd like to.
This is Parminder Nagra ("ER")'s breakout role, playing Jess, a teenager in England who is caught between her traditional Indian family and her love of football (that's soccer to us North Americans).
One of the biggest hits of 1926, Brown of Harvard is a exciting comedy/drama featuring regatta and football scenes that gave William Haines the role he needed to become a major star.
This film is noted now for its homoerotic relationship between Haines and Pickford and for being John Wayne's film debut as a Yale football player (but I never spotted him).
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