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Directed by:
Maria GieseScreenplay:
Werner ZeusselCinematography:
Gerry FisherComposer:
Anne DudleyCast:
Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite, John McEnery, Ann Bell, Melanie Hill, Chris Walker, David Leland, Rita May, Rebecca Nichols, Sabine Oberhorner (more)VOD (1)
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Jimmy Muir is a hard-drinking brewery worker in the city of Sheffield, with an arrogant lack of respect for authority. His entire life has been orientated by football and he possesses the potential, but has never had the courage or discipline to make anything of it. Jimmy is spotted by Ken Jackson, whilst playing for his pub team. Ken is the manager of Hallam football club, a local non-league team. After continually playing brilliantly for Hallam, Jimmy gets offered a trial at Sheffield United. The evening before the trial he gets drunk, and wakes up feeling very rough. Consequently he fails to impress the Sheffield United manager. Jimmy then has to consider his future and his choices and if he has the self discipline to succeed! (official distributor synopsis)
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One cliché after another. And clichés and maladies from both the genre of sports films and social dramas. Emotions do not come up and the sports aspect is just for the sake of appearance. The film works well only because of Sean Bean's role of a lifetime. It's a role of a lifetime not because of his performance (although, at the age of almost forty, playing an impertinent adolescent who's almost a generation younger without looking ridiculous is a truly admirable performance), but because of his personality. Bean won't die here, but it's all about getting on the roster of the Sheffield United team. Into a club that he in fact has been passionately supporting since childhood. And who wouldn´t like to make their dream of scoring a winning goal for his beloved club come true, at least on the screen, right? Bean really enjoys it, which can be seen pretty clearly and thanks to which he saves this movie, which otherwise might have been just an average film that is worth seeing only when it is raining and you have nothing else to do.
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