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Bend It Like Beckham

Cast

Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher View All


Crew

Gurinder Chadha (Screenplay), Gurinder Chadha (Director), Guljit Bindra (Screenplay), Paul Mayeda Berges (Screenplay) View All

Release: Apr. 11th, 2002
Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
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Chypmunk
With events being centred around football it's nice that the sporting scenes are initially generally well managed, being kept fairly brief and edited nicely enough to mostly appear realistic, though it does have to be said that the sporting climax is by far the weakest such scene and looks terribly ....
The Gnat
This really is a guilty pleasure movie for me in that I can't think of anything earth shattering about it or any great performances in it. I just find this movie pretty entertaining more then anything else. Also, having Keira Knightley in a film never really hurts the film in my opinion..


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