Bend It Like Beckham
Synopsis
If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him the world's your oyster, right? Wrong. If you're Jess - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it. Do you think your marriage-obsessed folks will let you play a Man's game?
If you're Jules - 18, English and a girl - what will it take to convince your mother that just because you play footie with girls doesn't mean you're a lesbian?
Both girls dream of playing professionally - that means going to the States where the girls get paid, get sponsorship and get proper respect. Jess and Jules are on their way with help from their coach, Joe, until they both fall in love with him.
Details
- Year
- 2002
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- tbc
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Gurinder Chadha
- Producer
- Ulrich Felsberg, Russel Fischer, Simon Franks, Zygi Kamasa, Haneet Vaswani
- Editor
- Justin Krish
- Screenwriter
- Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges
- Director of Photography
- Jong Lin
- Sound
- John Hayes
- Principal cast
- Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Shaznay Lewis, Juliet Stevenson, Anupam Kher, Frank Harper, Archie Punjabi, Kulvinder Ghir
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Bilb/Road Movies
c/o The WorksSales Company
The Works
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UK
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www.theworkslimited.com
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