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He plays Bruce Pritchard, a football player - that's soccer player to us Americans - whose legs give out and he has to live in a home for invalids.
Did you know that Kellie Martin is a skilled soccer player?
Even not being a huge fan of football(soccer) this movie held me captivated.
Set in 1980's Glasgow and featuring a typically acerbic and avant garde Glaswegian screenplay, the film concerns the adventures of Gregory (failed soccer striker cum goalie) and his pursuit of Dorothy, the dashingly glamorous new addition to the school team.
'Gregory's Girl' was clearly filmed between Spring and early Autumn and there's one enduringly beautiful scene where Dorothy plays keep-up with a soccer ball, shot against the maternally basking backdrop of urban Glasgow, whilst a haunting saxophone laments and chases the fading daylight, bemoaning the inevitable and eventual closure of our younger years, brief and fleeting as the scene itself.
Fans in New York look to be as fans from Rome in soccer, nearly always senseless, without given the appropriate recognition to whom deserves it.
The table soccer scene is awesome shot.
The pleasure is that all the scenes that are about the soccer game are carefully worked with a good amount of dramatics and game technicalities.
It starts with an injury to a young soccer player (McDowell) and then proceeds to show various stages in his mental adjustment to his permanent condition, the relationships he forms, and moves toward a powerful look at meaning and purpose in life beyond the difficulties we face, without minimizing those difficulties.
John Gordon Sinclair exudes a gawky, gangling charm as the lovesick Gregory and the rest of the cast are perfect.Jake D'Arcy is wonderful as Phil Menzies, the ambitious sports master, the brilliant Chick Murray is the pompous headteacher, Dee Hepburn is Dorothy, the confident, dedicated new member of the soccer team, Gregory is besotted with her.
It takes some digressions, a few brief ones and one long one (the soccer player subplot), which in spite of some comments on here, really accomplishes nothing to advance the development of the main character that could not have been accomplished more logically, otherwise.
What's so different about this romantic/fantasy dark comedy is it that uses the British (and European at that - it was set in Euro 1996) enthusiastic obsession with soccer as a backdrop, and thus provides an emotionally dramatic fantasy setting of 'what ifs' and anticipation for the main drama of quirky romance.
I love football(soccer) and after having to watch so many baseball movies I am happy to finally have a movie series about the sport that I like and play.
Josh discovers that his dog, Buddy is extremely talented at soccer so Josh and Buddy join the soccer team.
A bunch of soccer moms, a crack head, a gardener, a tight jeans cameraman and a few nerdy scientists battle against the intergalactic equivalent of the US navy seals or the German waffen SS and win every time?
Gregory is your average Scottish teenager, interested in football (soccer for us in America)and girls, not necessarily in that order.
Marisa Tomei is exceptionally convincing in the lead role as a soccer mom tortured by visions which could be premonitions or hallucinations.
I truly liked the original "Goal" mainly because I'm a huge soccer fan.
The first Goal was a great movie that i believe every soccer fan should view.
Great camera work, amazing/thrilling moments throughout all to form a great movie experience!!! Definitely worth the watch for any soccer fan.
All characters are well presented, and the movies plot is not lost throughout as young Munez finds his way as a real first class soccer player.
To keep it this real, it can't always be pretty so from Le Dawn's divorce woes, to Mindy the soccer mom, you can't help but identify with at least someone in the film.
I got up and went to play for my local soccer team and we were knocked out of the London lower league cup by a crunching 3-0 defeat at home.
Tennis, Gymnastics? well i am a soccer player and really did like it, especially as a kid.
In fact, FIFA prohibits both direct and indirect taxation on all income from the event, exempting continental soccer confederations, host-country broadcasters, and FIFA member associations, service providers, and contractors.
It is very difficult for schools, law enforcement agencies, soccer clubs, and telephone, electricity, and water companies to cooperate across the Green Line.
Or their pledges could be more in line with those of the global soccer stars who have vowed to give at least 1% of their salaries to charity.
From “Les Bleus” to “the Blues”PARIS – Is football (soccer) just a mirror that reflects the collective emotions of a country?
If one substitutes war for soccer, the comparison that comes to mind is that of the aging French military establishment, behind the Maginot Line in 1940, unable to confront General Heinz Guderian’s masterful command of blitzkrieg tank attacks.
In Europe, at least when it comes to soccer, “small is beautiful,” and, as a fan, it is much better to be Dutch, Portuguese, or Slovak, than Italian, English, or, of course, French.
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