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Bend It Like Beckham

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  • Title: Bend It Like Beckham
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Bend It Like Beckham

Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley star in this 2002 sports dramedy as two young women striving to fulfill their dreams of playing soccer despite the disapproval of each of their mothers. Impressed by seeing her play in the park with local boys, Jules (Knightley) recruits Jess (Nagra) to play for the amateur women’s football team. Despite her parents’ (Anupam Kher and Shaheen Khan) disapproval and near-total focus on her sister’s (Archie Panjabi) impending wedding, Jess decides to play in secret.

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Challengers

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Challengers

What a mess. You know you are in trouble when in the final act of a film, particularly a sports film, you find yourself with no investment or interest in the outcome. Honestly, shouldn’t I be cheering for someone? Anyone? Anyone at all? A Challenger is a tennis tournament, often with local sponsorship for small prize money, for those not quite good enough for the main tour tournaments. The film from director Luca Guadagnino and writer Justin Kuritzkes is aptly named as it too is not-yet-ready for prime time.

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The Beautiful Game

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The Beautiful Game

Based loosely on real stories, The Beautiful Game follows the British football team to Rome for the Homeless World Cup (a real tournament that uses a football championship which features homeless players of various skills from countries around the world to bring awareness to homelessness). The tournament, which many likely know very little about, is certainly a heartwarming topic to build a movie around. The stories we get told with it as it’s backdrop, however, are a bit more hit-and-miss.

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