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Hurray! Hurray!

"Bend It Like Beckham" is opening in the US and Canada from March 12. It's not going nationwide (yet) but opening in selected cities...including towns that I've noticed that quite a few Britnetters live in eg. Plano, Austin, Santa Cruz.

Pete bought me the DVD in England at Christmas and I love it. It's a really nice feel-good British-Indian comedy with a good soundtrack. If you liked the humour in "Bridget Jones's Diary" or "Four Weddings & A Funeral" you will like this - and it has no bad language in it! I thought that Juliet Stevenson (a mum) was very, very funny in it - you'll spot her in the trailer.

I'll try and catch it on the big screen. For any Britnetters with kids aged say, 8 or 9 and throughout the teenage years it's a good film to take them and their friends to. However it's one of those rare films that's suitable for all ages and is very British in context.

Here's the official trailer and the second link is the guide to all the towns it's being played at over the next month or so (but they're adding more every day)

(NB the catchy tune is "Endless Smile" by the Scots group Sharleen Spiteri/Texas - it's on their Greatest Hits CD)

http//www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/benditlikebeckham

http//www.foxsearchlight.com/benditlikebeckham

Enjoy! razz lol

Thanks for the link Dawn. I've been waiting for this movie for weeks. Seems I'll have to wait until the end of March to catch the movie..... Looking forward to this film ever since I saw the trailer on asia tv.


Zed

This film made me feel really homesick. I hadn't been to the UK for a year and a half when I saw it (I have lived away from the UK for 3 years now) and I worked in West London, living in various places throughout Hounslow and Ealing.

The short scene where they show the outside of Hounslow East station, where I had waited so many times in the rain for the 111 bus, was the final straw.

I want to see it too. Starts 4th April my way. Hurrah, my MIL comes that week -even babysitting's sorted! grin

Bend it like Beckham always sounded like an unusual genital deformity to me.

I saw this film on my flight to Nairobi from London on British Airways last June. It was better than I had expected and quite entertaining.

bvamin

I took my nephew to see this film about a year ago in Leicester Square (land of the five pound ice creams etc). He's a 15 year old lad, who's into rap music, garage and football in a really intense way. I think he was only interested in the film because it had Beckham in the title. As the film progressed I thought it might be too soft for him and he loved every minute of it. I think he really related to the whole multicultural message in the film - because for a London kid, that's his reality.

I thought it was absolutely superb and I was also impressed by the fast sort of Lock Stock cutting, even though it was really a typical Channel Four classic, small story British film.

Wonderful performances. It even impressed a 15 year old lad who reckons himself a bit hard.

"About a Boy' had that effect on me. Plus the sheer shock that Hugh Grant could actually act :eek:

I agree. Until that film I thought the only role Hugh Grant could play was a dithering tw*t

I agree. Until that film I thought the only role Hugh Grant could play was a dithering tw*t

I agree. Until that film I thought the only role Hugh Grant could play was a dithering tw*t

Aha! Multiple posting to try and catch me up, eh?

You might want to try clicking the links back to the forum rather than the back button when you've just posted smile

Oops sorry.

Hey no worries -you'll never catch me! lol

This movie comes out today in Montclair So were off to see this movie tomorrow night. Myself and four American friends. Were also going to have an Indian either before or after. Just curious though as to if they'll understand the humor.

Zed